A quick note on the death of one of my favorite writers, Robert B. Parker.
I’ve read probably 35 if the 37 Spenser novels, most of them 2 or 3 times. I could pick April Kyle out of a police lineup. I’ve forever wanted a German Shorthaired Pointer named “Pearl the Wonder Dog.” I was lucky enough to find my own “Susan Silverman.”
I read them in my early teens initially and I thought Spenser was about the coolest character in the world, every day I wished I was as smart, tough, and dryly hilarious as that character. If a character in a book can truly have an “influence in your life then Spenser had that for me.
There has been many a moment in my life where I thought “What would Spenser say?” “What would Spenser do?” If only I were have as quick and witty as he was, or as I like to think I am.
I was saddened to learn of Parker’s passing and plan to head to the used bookstore and start reading the Spenser books beginning to end asap. I suggest you all do the same, you won’t regret it.
