March 18, 2010
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Interlude
I tried to read more slowly. I did. I didn’t want to finish it in one night because I knew there wouldn’t be any more of them. I played on the web some – read his obituary and a handful of old articles that are reappearing now that he is in author heaven, sitting carelessy on a barstool, no tie, but a buttong down shirt open at the color. He looks like Spenser and Spenser looks like him with a little of Robert Urich thrown in. I couldn’t read slowly enough and finished it in one night because I couldn’t stop. I just couldn’t stop.
Split Image is vintage Robert B. Parker. Perfect pacing and enough unknowns to keeps the pages turning. It’s a Jesse Stone novel with a Sunny Randall guest appearance. It’s a perfect ending really, so perfect in fact, that I wonder if it would have been the final book if Parker had lived.
Looking into what is out there that will published posthumously, it appears that there is another of his westerns arriving on shelves in May. I’ve not read those. The best news is that there are two Spenser novels locked in a vault that no one has made a decision about. Hmmmm. Who is writing fiction that can do for Robert B. Parker what Parker did for Raymond Chandler? Harlan Coban maybe. Or Dennis Lehane. Hmmmmm.
I am listening to Bach. Birds are singing. The sun shines. And I have a new Robert B. Parker novel swimming around my head. Life is good.
And so it goes
Comments (3)
Lovely! I’m at work. Hopefully by the time I get home, the sun will still be shining, birds will still be singing, and I’ll have a new book to read (Stopping at B&N on my way home). One can hope, anyway.
I’ve put a request in at my library!
Thank you, I’m hoping for some good reading time this upcoming summer! (would always appreciate more recommendations…!)
They don’t make them like Parker, do they? That’s the great thing about books, you can “rerun” them until the pages fall out and never need to worry about the electricity being on, the network working, the Internet being slow, or the computer available…… :>)