What are you reading the week of September 23, 2012?

[getting old in mke]

7. _Treason's Harbour_ by Patrick O'Brian

Spends more time than most in the series focusing on Stephen's intelligence activities instead of Jack's Naval adventures.

Going through them sequentially is revealing/reminding me of the odd way, sometimes, that O'Brian broke up the overall narrative, either just stopping abruptly (_The Ionian Mission_) or going on a fair chunk past the logical ending point (_Post Captain_). In some way, this might go with his writing style of detailed attention for a while, then jumping as far as he can reasonably and only give the reader a couple of sentence sketch to fill in the gap. Kinda like driving to work: you pay attention at certain spots, while other stretches go by without much notice.