After a discussion that primarily took place in the What are we listening to? thread, there appears to be enough interest to start a book club to jointly read and discuss the Aubrey / Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian.
To start that process, we can use this thread to discuss the details of how we want to proceed. My first thoughts are to read and discuss one book every other month, starting at the beginning with Master & Commander, and taking on the next in the series every other month.
There would be no membership requirements, and MobileRead members can participate on any book they wish, or if circumstance require, skip a discussion and come back later to join in. You can even skip reading a book entirely, if you think you can do that. :)
So, what are the Aubrey/Maturin books, and why should you want to read them? Well, since I already answered this over on the Listening thread, let me simply quote myself:
To start that process, we can use this thread to discuss the details of how we want to proceed. My first thoughts are to read and discuss one book every other month, starting at the beginning with Master & Commander, and taking on the next in the series every other month.
There would be no membership requirements, and MobileRead members can participate on any book they wish, or if circumstance require, skip a discussion and come back later to join in. You can even skip reading a book entirely, if you think you can do that. :)
So, what are the Aubrey/Maturin books, and why should you want to read them? Well, since I already answered this over on the Listening thread, let me simply quote myself:
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