The Floatplane Notebooks

An entertaining, at times poignant read. I've enjoyed Clyde Edgerton's books over the year. Walking Across Egypt is a fun read. Floatplane Notebooks takes you inside a North Carolina family with their quirks and interests. It starts in the 50s and moves into the turbulent 60s. Vietnam looms and the......more

I've listened to this as an audiobook at least 5 times, once with my husband John Kitchens for his first time. It has ROFL parts and some of the most sad, moving parts I've ever read. this isn't really a spoiler for the best ROFL part: Watch out/listen out for Papa saying: "Thantion it, damn it, tha......more

Ths book shows reality and truth of the times. These stories were told to me as a child verbatim by my grandmother late at night during her sickness after a diabetic shock. She passed in 1972/ I was age 18. We visited the gravesite for the yearly cleaning. The stories about Aunt Sarah and 'Puss' had......more