{"id":1501,"date":"2004-09-24T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:39:33","slug":"1501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/1501\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>Melancholy Baby<\/i> by Robert B. Parker (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I cannot tell you much about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0425204219\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0425204219&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=138af55dd10772377a1b557e00069c82\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> because it just came out today, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweave.mu.nu\" target=\"_new\">beautful wife<\/a> hasn&#8217;t read it yet, so I cannot give away the details, except:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a Sunny Randall book.\n<li>Parker continues to explore his femispenser side, which I think involves doubting yourself, paying not only attention to your clothes but also your makeup, and crying.  Crikey, I think I must have learned everything I know about writing women characters from him.\n<li>Needs more gun play.  Like Checkov said, if you see the big bald black guy in act one, he must fire a couple rounds by act three.\n<li>The Parkerverse crossovers continue; in the last Spenser book, Spenser passed an unidentified Sunny Randall walking her dog, and in this book&#8230;.Well, I cannot tell you, but rest assured, this will undoubtedly culminate in a Spenser, Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, Jackie Robinson, Wyatt Earp,  race horse, and Spiderman cross over you won&#8217;t want to miss!  Until next time, Excelsior!<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I cannot tell you much about this book because it just came out today, and my beautful wife hasn&#8217;t read it yet, so I cannot give away the details, except: It&#8217;s a Sunny Randall book. Parker continues to explore his femispenser side, which I think involves doubting yourself, paying not only attention to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21055,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/21055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}