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Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment by Jessica Wapner

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht

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Book 41: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll Rough Review: 5 stars. This is an interesting book. I’ve tagged it both as True Crime and Historical Fiction. Its relationship to the idea of “based on a true story” is fascinating. I’m not sure I’ve read a book quite like this before, and I think I appreciated it more than I enjoyed it. That’s not a knock against it, the subject matter is quite brutal and the fact that it’s based on a (n infuriating) true […]

No Money, Mo’ Problems

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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Margo is a 19-year-old community college student struggling to get by. Raised by a single mother, she waits tables to pay for school and the rent for the apartment she shares with three roommates. She’s also sleeping with her English professor. Margo is basically just drifting through life aimlessly until she finds out she is pregnant. Her teacher/lover, her mother, her best friend and even her absentee father all assume she’ll be getting an abortion, but Margo resists. Frustratingly, the only reason Margo or the […]

Even when it came to herself, Margo could see it both ways: hometown girl makes good, defies capitalist patriarchy, or teen whore sells nudes while nursing, too lazy to work.

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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CBR17 Bingo: Review It’s because you know. It’s because you’re in control of it! That is what makes someone slutty or not slutty! Think about it. If a girl doesn’t know she’s hot and is innocently going about her business, and some guys spy on her naked, she’s not a slut. But if she knows guys want to see her naked and charges them money to spy on her, she’s a slut. The same physical thing is happening in both scenarios, guys see her naked […]

My first introduction to OnlyFans

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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CBR17Bingo: “Work” – Because Only Fans is definitely work I had never heard of Margo’s Got Money Troubles (2024) by Rufi Thorpe when my book club picked it as our next read. I was only told that the main character does OnlyFans, so I was intrigued, but I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I ended up listening to this one on Audiobook. I really enjoyed this novel. Margo is a very likeable protagonist. She is smart, resourceful, and works hard to protect those she loves. I […]

“And now it was time to get fucked by a robot to meet her unborn child.”

Margo's Got Money Trouble by Rufi Thorpe

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  A story about perseverance, forgiveness, and the answer to the question of what Pokemon is your dick  most like. Plot: Margo has been floating through life with little in the way of inter or introspection. At 20, she’s plowing her way through community college and her literature professor, though neither with any serious enthusiasm. Since her 37 year old prof was really confident about the pull out method, she winds up pregnant, and against every piece of advice, she decides to keep the baby. Why? […]

sex work can also be funny!

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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UGH to recap my mid-book status update: what a FANTASTIC book-as-advertisement for the importance of comprehensive sex education in schools that focuses on both the benefits of long term reversible contraception as well as what healthy, mutually fulfilling sexual relationships look like! If Margo as a character wasn’t amusing and so forthright with her personal failings I’d have thrown this book at a wall. I’ll note that my review isn’t because I disliked the plot, even though I am explicitly on the record as disliking […]



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