Preparing for the Aubrey/Maturin Chapter-a-Week Read-along: Book 2 – Post Captain
If you have been following the Aubrey-Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Schedule, then you have just reached the end of Master and Commander by reading a chapter a week for the last twelve weeks. Congratulations!
While I haven’t been able to post weekly as I had planned, I do want to mark the end of the first book of our four-year voyage. Feel free to leave your thoughts, reactions, and questions about Master and Commander in the comments section below. And be sure to check out Brona’s amazing wrap-up post for the book.
Next up is the longest book in the series, and also one of my favorites, Post Captain. It’s fourteen chapters long, whereas most of the other books have either nine or ten chapters. We will spend all spring reading Post Captain, from March 22 to June 27.
In the second book of the series, we finally get to see Jack and Stephen at home in England for the first time, and we get introduced to some of the significant recurring female characters. Where Master and Commander sets the nautical/historical context of the series, Post Captain sets the social context.
Happy reading, shipmates!
I finally caught up and must say how I enjoyed re-reading M&C and getting thoroughly reacquainted with Jack and Stephen, their life at sea, their complex relationships, the J, S and Dillon triangle, for example, I also had forgotten they went to Sardinia; that triggered childhood memories of living there, l could easily imagine them in those waters. However, I would rather glide over the image of Stephen dissecting body parts. I find his cold-blooded objectivity rather gruesome at times, but find his insights and philosophical discussions with various people fascinating. How much, I muse, of the author’s views,find outlet in the characters’ conversations. A marvelous introduction. Anyway, looking forward to Post-Captain and a certain that complex lady. Happy reading all.
All caught up!
https://bronasbooks.com/2021/08/16/post-captain-patrick-obrian-readalong/