The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey  was published 7 years ago in 2004.  It was published under the title of "21" in th...

I've been reading passionately the last few days.  This is the last fully written book by Patrick O'Brian . The title, obviously ...

Three long-standing characters die in this book.  Diana and Jack's mother-in-law die in a carriage crash.  It was quite shocking to re...

The Yellow Admiral was the best non-action book of the series.  There are very few battles in this book and they being quite mellow at th...

I have now finished the 17th book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The Commodore has all that you would expect from a Patrick O'Brian ...

Here is the link to the Wiki summary.  It does a fine job summarizing the book so I don't have to! I'm glad I found this pictur...

So The Truelove is about a woman named Clarissa Oakes (which is the name of the book as it was published originally) and a ship named the...

Well, I guess it was bound to happen at some point.  This book was not that great.  It dragged on.  But being as I was stuck in a car for 52...

A quick word about the picture ... the version I'm reading is nearly identical to the one shown, except instead of cannon, it has a squa...

Wow - as quickly as Jack's and Stephen's fortune turned sour in Reverse of the Medal, they just as quick turned out quite well in Le...

Excellent, excellent book!  Like a clock with so many turning wheels and cogs, this books turns on so many points - on a macro, as well as ...

I'm really cruising through these books now.  I'm finding them much easier to read and to understand.  At 366 pages, I was able to f...

I was able to knock this one out in 25 days - easy reading because it was such a good book!  The espionage is thick in this book. If anyon...

The Ionian Mission was an OK read.  It really was two books in one ... the first half being the blockade mission with Admiral Thornton and t...

As always, a clear summary is provided at Wikipedia - click here . This book sees the return to Europe of Jack and Stephen.  The chase acr...

This was my favorite book thus far in the series.  I've struggled a bit at times in some of the first books, but this was the first one ...

What an amazing book!  This book caught my eye while perusing Half Priced Books a while back and I've been itching to read it. The six...

Desolation Island was a very good read.  The actual island Captain Aubrey landed on after being shipwrecked is now called today the Kerguel...

As usual, I won't delve into the summary of the book.  Thanks to Wikipedia, there one can already read finely written summaries of these...

In the background of my normally scheduled reading, I've been indulging in the last of the Harry Potter series.  It all started as bedti...