{"id":22519,"date":"2023-11-09T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22519"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:40:32","slug":"promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22519","title":{"rendered":"Promised Land, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promised Land<\/em><\/a>, Audio Book (1976) Robert B. Parker<\/a> narrated by Michael Prichard (Spenser)<\/p>\n

\"Promised<\/a>We are now beginning to see Spenser develop into who he is in later stories.<\/p>\n

“Maybe Millie might know.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYour daughter?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, she\u2019s sixteen. That\u2019s old enough for them to have girl talk and stuff, I imagine. Maybe she\u2019s got something you could use. Want me to get her?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, and old phone bills, letters, that kind of thing, might be able to give us a clue as to where she\u2019d go. And I\u2019ll need a picture.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, okay. I\u2019ll get Millie first, and I\u2019ll look for that stuff while you\u2019re talking with her.\u201d He hadn\u2019t come right home and done it like I told him. Maybe I lacked leadership qualities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The self-depreciating humor.<\/p>\n

It was five o\u2019clock and Susan agreed to join Pam for a drink while I made supper. I pounded some lamb steaks I\u2019d bought for lamb cutlets. Dipped them in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs. When they were what Julia Child calls nicely coated I put them aside and peeled four potatoes. I cut them into little egg-shaped oblongs, which took a while, and started them cooking in a little oil, rolling them around to get them brown all over. I also started the cutlets in another pan. When the potatoes were evenly browned I covered them, turned down the heat and left them to cook through. When the cutlets had browned, I poured off the fat, added some Chablis and some fresh mint, covered them and let them cook. Susan came out into the kitchen once to make two new drinks. I made a Greek salad with feta cheese and ripe olives and Susan set the table while I took the lamb cutlets out of the pan and cooked down the wine. I shut off the heat, put in a lump of unsalted butter, swirled it through the wine essence and poured it over the cutlets. With the meal we had warm Syrian bread and most of a half gallon of California Burgundy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cooking.<\/p>\n

The spaghetti sauce was bubbling. I poured it into a big gravy boat and put two big heaps of spaghetti on two plates. I poured the salad dressing over the salad, tossed it and set everything on the kitchen counter. \u201cSilverware in the drawer there,\u201d I said. I got some Gallo Burgundy in a half-gallon bottle and two wine glasses out of the cupboard. <\/p>\n

We sat at the counter and ate and drank. \u201cDid you make the spaghetti sauce?\u201d she said. \u201cYeah. A secret recipe I got off the back of the tomato paste can.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the salad dressing? Is there honey in it?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYep. Got that from my mother.\u201d <\/p>\n

She shook her head. \u201cFighter, lover, gourmet cook? Amazing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNope. I\u2019ll take the fighter, lover, but the gourmet cook is a sexist remark.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019d cooked this no one would say you were a gourmet cook. It\u2019s because I\u2019m a man. A man who cooks and is interested in it is called a gourmet. A woman is called a housewife. Now eat the goddamned spaghetti,\u201d I said. She did. Me too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The feminism.<\/p>\n

And this book introduces something even more important.<\/p>\n

Shepard appeared from the door past the stairs. With him was a tall black man with a bald head and high cheekbones. He had on a powder blue leisure suit and a pink silk shirt with a big collar. The shirt was unbuttoned to the waist and the chest and stomach that showed were as hard and unadorned as ebony. He took a pair of wraparound sunglasses from the breast pocket of the jacket and as he put them on, he stared at me over their rims until very slowly the lenses covered his eyes and he stared at me through them. <\/p>\n

I looked back. \u201cHawk,\u201d I said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n

Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Maybe she\u2019s got something you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,37,33,8,43,41],"tags":[731,500,106,107],"class_list":["post-22519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-audio-book","category-historical","category-mystery","category-private-eye","category-reread","tag-1970s","tag-michael-prichard","tag-robert-b-parker","tag-spenser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Rd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22553,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22553","url_meta":{"origin":22519,"position":0},"title":"Valediction, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Valediction , Audio Book (1984) Robert B. 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