It's a conspiracy!

I guess I'd heard of Patrick O'Brian before this week, but I'd never even had enough curiosity to wonder who he was. But at my last violin lesson my teacher mentioned the Master and Commander movie, because of it's use of a Bach piece she was about to assign to me. So I ordered it at the library and my family and I watched. Or rather, my dad was glued to the tv set, I kept asking for explanations, and my mom hid her eyes during the violence and the surgery scenes.

If it weren't for the doctor who reminded me a little of Roger Hamley in Wives and Daughters and Tertius Lydgate in Middlemarch, I probably wouldn't even have bothered noting down the name of the author of the original novel. So maybe that was number 253 on the Read Someday list.

But then I was reading the end of The Jane Austen Book Club again and one character claimed some of O'Brian's scenes could be called Austenesque.

And then I was reading the Yahoo! Janeites digest of the day and a member compared the Bertram sisters' professed knowledge of geography to the portrayal of a woman's geographical knowledge in the Jack Aubrey series.

Yeah, I think O'Brian might be moving up higher on the Soon list.