Preparing for the Aubrey/Maturin Chapter-a-Week Read-along: Book 5 – Desolation Island

If you’re participating in the Aubrey-Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Schedule, then you have just reached the end of The Mauritius Command, the fourth book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. With the end of book four we are now one fifth of the way through the series. Jack Aubrey is in the prime of his naval career, and his family is growing. Dr. Maturin’s career in espionage is bearing great fruit for the Crown, but his personal life is not what he would hope.

What did you think of The Mauritius Command? Leave your thoughts, reactions, and questions about the book and the series in the comments section below.

Next, the story continues with Desolation Island, which straddles 2021 and 2022. We begin November 22, 2021 and finish the book on January 30, 2022.

Happy reading, shipmates!

Deacon Nick

Nick Senger is a husband, a father of four, a Roman Catholic deacon and a Catholic school principal. He taught junior high literature and writing for over 25 years, and has been a Catholic school educator since 1990. In 2001 he was named a Distinguished Teacher of the Year by the National Catholic Education Association.

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