{"id":8215,"date":"2021-06-27T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:52:39","slug":"preparing-for-the-aubrey-maturin-chapter-a-week-read-along-book-3-h-m-s-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/preparing-for-the-aubrey-maturin-chapter-a-week-read-along-book-3-h-m-s-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the Aubrey\/Maturin Chapter-a-Week Read-along: Book 3 \u2013 H.M.S. Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re participating in the Aubrey-Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Schedule<\/a>, then you have just reached the end of Post Captain<\/em> by reading a chapter a week for the last fourteen weeks. Combined with our twelve-week reading of Master and Commander<\/em>, we are exactly half way through the first year of our four year odyssey through the Aubrey-Maturin books. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

As much as I enjoy Master and Commander, <\/em>I feel like Post Captain<\/em> is the real beginning to the series. Because\u00a0 Master and Commander<\/em> is mostly a naval adventure story (albeit a great one) it feels more like a prologue than like the actual first book in the series. In Post Captain<\/em> we meet the key women in the story, we find out about Maturin’s career in intelligence, and many of ongoing conflicts are introduced.<\/p>\n

This post is for you to post your feedback about the book and the series. What did you think of Post Captain<\/em>? Feel free to leave your thoughts, reactions, and questions about Post Captain<\/em> in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

Next up is another one of my favorites, H.M.S. Surprise<\/em>, in which we are introduced to a vessel every bit as important and beloved as the main characters. We will spend all summer getting to know H.M.S. Surprise<\/em> and her crew, from June 28 to September 12.<\/p>\n

Happy reading, shipmates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re participating in the Aubrey-Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Schedule, then you have just reached the end of Post Captain by reading a chapter a week for the last fourteen weeks. Combined with our twelve-week reading of Master and Commander, we are exactly half way through the first year of our four year odyssey through the Aubrey-Maturin books. Congratulations! As much as I enjoy Master and Commander, I feel like Post Captain is the real beginning to the series. Because\u00a0 Master and Commander is mostly a naval...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Preparing for the Aubrey\/Maturin Chapter-a-Week Read-along: Book 3 \u2013 H.M.S. Surprise #aubreymaturinreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1142,124],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-aubrey-maturin-readalong","tag-aubreymaturin-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ivan_Constantinovich_Aivazovsky_-_Exploding_Ship.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-28v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}