Another one gone.
The first book I picked up in late June on returning to San Francisco was The Wine-Dark Sea, number 16 in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series. I can see the end of the line, and that’s not a happy forecast. I should have written my senior thesis comparing the Hornblower novels to the Aubrey-Maturin novels. Not that I want to go back and do it again after all this time. Anyway, just a few more sea voyages with these old friends left.