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I finished this book today. I did not enjoy this book at all. There were no redeeming moments. I live in the communities near where the author sets the book. Also I felt like there was no real ending to this book. It just stopped. Definitely a pan 👎🏻 for me. I will never get those hours of reading back.

#24B4Monday #readathon
Let‘s see what we can wrap up this last weekend in October. So sad 😞 that October is almost over. It‘s my favorite month. We need more Octobers!
#repost and tag @TheReadingMermaid - she‘s a great Litten to follow!

I walk through the door of Malaprop‘s Bookstore in Asheville, one of the coolest bookshops in the south, to hear Robert Gipe read from “Weedeater” on Wednesday 7/18

Gipe‘s debut, “Trampoline,” was a tour de force set in opioid-ravaged Kentucky. “Weedeater” expands on this theme but is not as good. The second narrator was okay, but Gene never “came up to snuff” as an equal to Dawn—whereas Dawn is, if possible, even better. Some of the guy dialogue that Gene made possible was hilarious, however. Gene‘s ending does not fit into the novel. The F-word is only used twice as a sum-it-all-up mantra. #appalachia

Hooray!!! Another illustrated novel by Robert Gipe. I loved “Trampoline.” #appalachia

Fascinating so far, this is a novel set in Appalachia and incorporating the fallout from the coal industry, the ubiquity and damage caused by the opioid epidemic, and the craziest, funny, wonderful characters.