Tiffany Phelps

Speechless

Revisado: 04-08-16

I have listened to over 300 audiobooks and none have come close to touching me the way this book did.
Perhaps it was because we were raised in neighboring towns... Lake Charles and new Iberia. Perhaps it was because we both had "self made" fathers who rode to the very tip top of the oilfield wave only to violently crash when it came down...leaving us as their children with only a remnant of the men we once knew as a king now clawing their way back to simply surviving.
Perhaps it's because Blaine's voice, sayings and accent screamed with the voices of my childhood growing up surrounded by swamp, the oilfield world, and the unique culture only a coonass knows... Those voices I've tried for so long to silence bc remembering is sweet but painful.
I can't say for sure which of the above or if was a mixture of the all of the above and more but for the first time while listening to the end of one of so many emotional stories I've listened to, this time I found myself in tears and unable to make them stop.
This book is a treasure and I must get my hands on a hard copy. I finally feel like I have a memoir to hold onto until mine is complete. All oilfield brats, coonass kids, and, most of all, those who have watched their hero fall from his throne while grasping for anything to stabilize him as he descends quicker and quicker ... We all owe this author a debt of gratitude for capturing the emotions of a time and place we thought we wanted to forget...

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2nd Best Thing to Sitting at Grandma's House

Revisado: 04-07-16

I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this author but I'm totally in love with his work. Mix a tad "old time religion" humor with the comfort of the daily sameness at your favorite aunts house when you were growing up and top it all off with the perfect amount of nostalgia and southern charm and you have "walking across Egypt." This is the first in over 300 audio books I've listened to twice and I have a feeling everyone that urge to fly back home for a visit comes over me but can't be quenched...ill be playing this book again.

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Quirky, Easy to listen to, but never boring

Revisado: 04-07-16

I've yet to put my finder on exactly what it is but Clyde Edgerton's writing fills that "missing family and my little hometown" every time. Within the first chapter, it's as if you've just ran into those crazy people you grew up with. This definitely could be a stand alone book but also serves as the perfect follow up to Walking Across Egypt. Unlike many sequels this is not a rehashing of the same story. Instead it's a chance to see growth of the previous background characters now forefront, meet new characters just as likable as the lasts, and catch up on the lives of those that played lead roles in the previous book. Masterful weaving of the old and new!

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Simple and Gratifying

Revisado: 04-07-16

Once again Edgerton weaves a story that feels like a trip back home...quaint as a visit with ones old aunties, funny as a late night of telling family folktales again, and ending too soon and a bit abruptly like all good visits down home do.

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