{"id":535,"date":"2011-03-24T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/03\/that-wisteria-book-i-was-looking-for-the-floatplane-notebooks.html"},"modified":"2011-03-24T03:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:54:00","slug":"that-wisteria-book-i-was-looking-for-the-floatplane-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/03\/that-wisteria-book-i-was-looking-for-the-floatplane-notebooks.html","title":{"rendered":"That Wisteria Book I Was Looking For&#8230;.&quot;The Floatplane Notebooks&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vollmerdp.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/florida-discoveries-5-mass-wisteria.html\">On the post I just wrote a few hours ago,<\/a> I mentioned a book I had read several years ago that involved a very old wisteria, and how the author had personified it in several chapters. <\/p>\n<p>In my crazy search for the book&#8217;s title (which mostly yielded references to ABC&#8217;s Desperate Housewives), I found this forum that people use to find names of books they&#8217;re trying to remember. &nbsp;Part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/AbeBooks.com\/\">AbeBooks.com<\/a> website. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.abebooks.com\/n\/mb\/message.asp?webtag=abesleuthcom&amp;msg=24088.1\">I submitted a request, put in what I remembered about the plot and within 6 hours I had two replies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Anna on the forum, I now can share the information with you! <\/p>\n<p>The book my book club read in 2006 was called <b><i>The Floatplane Notebooks <\/i><\/b>by Clyde Edgerton. &nbsp;One of the reviewers compares the literary style to William Faulkner&#8217;s <b><i>As I Lay Dying<\/i><\/b> and they&#8217;re absolutely right! <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=grocontomaj0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0345419065\" style=\"height: 240px; width: 120px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the post I just wrote a few hours ago, I mentioned a book I had read several years ago that involved a very old wisteria, and how the author had personified it in several chapters. 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