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All the world’s a stage

Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe

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cbr18bingo Clown — features characters who are costumed performers (LARPing, cosplay for OnlyFans, professional wrestling). Cannonball! Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a very clever and entertaining novel about performance, voice, point of view. The narrator is Margo, who, while shifting her voice between first and third person, relates the story of her own shifting persona as a daughter, a single mother, a content creator, and a business person. Margo uses her wits and her heart to try to create the life she wants for herself […]

“The beginning of a novel is like a first date.”

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Adapted into movie or TV show (on Apple+ now) 19-year-old Margo Millet has an ill-advised affair with her English professor at college and gets pregnant. Against the advice of absolutely everyone, including her mother (a former Hooters waitress), she decides to keep it. Unfortunately, being pregnant and then a young single mother isn’t especially attractive on the job market, and before she knows it, two of her roommates have also moved out, because they just can’t handle the noise and the […]

Part 9 Only Posting Already Done Review Now Let’s See How Many Are Left Over After That I Will Never Do This To Y’All Again

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 […]



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