#Margo’s Got Money Troubles

[annihilate-this-week]

“She’d originally called Planned Parenthood. They wouldn’t do an ultrasound to confirm pregnancy until you were eight weeks along, though. Pregnancy math was cruel. The moment you found out you were pregnant, you were already at four weeks. Waiting four more weeks to see if she was pregnant or not seemed absurd, so she called around until she found an ob-gyn who was willing to see her at six weeks.”

— From “Margo's Got Money Troubles” by Rufi Thorpe

Think about this next time you hear about six-week abortion bans. Yes, this is fiction, but it describes the very real situation a typical American woman finds herself in if she gets pregnant. Six-week abortion bans are pretty much just outright bans on abortion. Don’t be fooled.

[rowan-is-reading]

Hhhhhhhhhh

Ok if you read 1 literary fiction book this year, let it be Margo’s Got Money Troubles

[bethanyactually]

Who was it who put Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe on my radar?

I cannot remember and I wish I did. My hold came up at the library recently and I tore through that book so fast--it was weird and challenging and hilarious and smart and extremely enjoyable! But it's been long enough since I placed the hold that I have no idea who prompted it. If it was you, thank you! If it wasn't you, please read this book unspoiled, except for this quote which needs no context:

When that grew boring, she scrolled Twitter, which was like being bathed in the dirty water of other people's thoughts.

[unimportant-ramblings]

Most stressed I've ever been

[kalereviews8782]

Review: Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Enjoyment: 5 / Prose: 5 / Characters: 5 / Plot: 5

pros: unique style, made me laugh, JINX, Thorpe understands capitalist isolation and it made me sob

con: I kind of hate Margo's mother, sorry (I may have mother issues)

It's tempting just to tell people: read this! read this, with no spoilers, no introductions, no synopsis (the cover art and title here do NOT do this book justice). But I have so much to say.

It's been a long time since I read a book this fast. Maybe about 6 months or so (this tracks, as what I thought was my life fell off the tracks about 6 months ago). This made me remember: I will always have books. I will always have these stories. Stories that catch me off guard- because, based on the synopsis of this book, I wasn't sure how I would feel. I mean, a young mother, babies, wrestling? Not necessarily my favorite topics.

Kale, for a long time, has been caught between the real and unreal. Caught between being their "true" self and worried that they're always acting, always wearing a mask. Are they always dissociating? Are they always a step back, watching themselves from a distance? Is it less real, to step back this way, is it healthy?

And then you step back into the first person. It feels a little more easy, but a little less like you know what is happening to yourself. I know less when I am viewing everything from myself. When I step back into third person, I see more around me.

Does any of this make sense?

The shift that the main character in Margo's Got Money Troubles makes, from first to third person, back and forth, was something I thought would be challenging at first, just a pretentious writing exercise, but instead it's one of the most creative and engaging styles that I've read in a while. It became relatively easy, to be viewing the character that Margo makes of herself, and then to be experiencing everything from Margo's actual point of view in the next paragraph.

My thoughts in this review are mostly focused on the style and presentation of the novel, but I love everything else about it too. The characters just about have the most real and distinct voices I've ever seen, the dialogue is natural, the plot itself is addicting (new baby, family issues, OnlyFans, wrestling, paternity, new romances, existential dread, loneliness, shame & judgment, etc), and there's so much to be said about the way we view ourselves and the way we see others as "characters". Also, much to be said about how loneliness (maybe due to this struggle with point of view and realness) may be the underlying cause of...everything.

[42ds-too]

Well, I just finished it two days ago, but...

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[thatdamndonnareed]

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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[james-master]

Book Review: Margo's Got Money Troubles

Book of the Month is a subscription-based service where you pay $15 a month and they send you a hardcover book of your choosing. I’ve been a member of theirs since September 2020. Since that time, I’ve read 55 BOTM books. When you rate them in the BOTM app, you choose either Love, Like, or Dislike. I’m happy to report that only four books are on the Dislike list. Margo’s Got Money Troubles,…

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel

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[hungryfictions]

books i read in the first third of the year

most liked:

all fours, miranda july

margo’s got money troubles, rufi thorpe

the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires, grady hendrix

the grown-up, gillian flynn

the guest, emma cline

madwoman, chelsea bieker

disappointed:

death in her hands, ottessa moshfegh

sugar, baby, celine saintclare

penance, eliza clark

worry, alexandra tanner

the odyssey, lara williams

[bimbo-travel-blog]

Home For The Holidays Part 1

“Bond is set at $20,000.00, you’ll be contacted within the next week by your appointed attorney.” With that Judge Gable, gaveled Dinah out and waited for the next defendant to approach. “Looks like I won’t be home for the holidays.” She joked with her guard. Dinah was a slight young woman with a pixie cut, dressed in the unfortunate fashion of defendants. “And neither will I, thanks for that.” He said with a great deal less humor. He was dressed in the equally unfortunate fashion of bailiffs. “Why’re you acting like you’re the one going to prison?” She sighed and let him sit her down with the rest of her pack of holiday hoodlums. They all had to wait like good little sisters in crime as they were each assigned bail. Compared to the two million dollar bail the lady who’d eaten her husband received, Dinah actually felt like a cheap date. The fact that she’d started selling drugs to make money, and now could not afford the bail for said crime didn’t pass her by without at least a chuckle. What a life. oh well spending Christmas with Maneater Margo wouldn’t be her worst holiday. It took about an hour for the judge to finish playing The Price is Right with the prisoners. They were walked back to their block by the guards when they were stopped by a clerk. “Pull, her, her, and her.” She said flicking a finger in Dinah’s direction. Dinah not no reason to believe that she’d actually been called up, but she was. The guards took her off the line along with two others and walked them to discharge. “Bail’s been paid.” A clerk explained, taking a signed form from Dinah. In exchange she got her belongings back, including her phone. “By who?” She literally couldn’t think of a soul who would bail her out. The clerk checked. “Cici CandyCunt?” She sighed. “Classy.” Dinah groaned. “You have no idea.” Cici was Dinah’s brainwashed sister. She’d joined a cult not long after college, and Dinah wanted nothing to do with the skank. She turned her phone on. It was filled with notifications, a few from her customers, and her plugs. But most of them were from none other that her guardian angel Cici. “Baby gurl! I heards yew got in trouble with the law! What’s going on ?!?!?!????” “Fer reel? Drugs? Baby that is so tacky. Yew know we only spose to be smokin’ Bambi blessed products and supplements.” “Don’t werry gurl. Daddy’s werkin’ that totally bitchin’ job at the factory and is posting bail!” “Omg just realized it’s Christmas!!! Come on, getcher skinny butt on over here to Bimburough! It’s sooooo important to be around family at a time like this!” Dinah was exhausted just reading the texts. Just imagining Cici’s faux trailer trash squeal she put on for her husband gave her a headache. “Am I allowed to leave the county?” She asked the clerk. “So long as you make your court dates.” Dinah sighed and stuffed her phone in her pocket. “You were supposed to say no.”

[foster-the-world]

Here for

Had a lovely Fourth of July long weekend with family Upstate. I love places that are beautiful and some people visit but they aren't huge tourist traps. The Catskills are beautiful.

I'm loving the documentary America's sweethearts about the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Such a different life then my own. Plus, liking the book "Margo's Got Money Troubles."

[unreal-unearthing]

For the book asks: 3, 13, and 25

Thanks for the ask!

So first of all I read a lot. Like over a hundred books. So I had to do like… research. Of my own goodreads. Lol

3. What were your top five books of the year?

So because I read so much I’m cheating a bit and doing top five fiction and top five nonfiction.

Top five fiction: Liars by Sarah Manguso, Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe, Penance by Eliza Clarke, Honey by Isabel Banto, and This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

Top five nonfiction: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker, We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, Unshrinking by Kate Manne, and Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

I read a lot of really bad romances this year (and not bad in a so-bad-it’s-good or guilty-pleasure kinda way. Genuinely really bad.)

I think Raiders of the Lost Heart wins a prize for PISSING ME OFF the most. It’s a romance about a WoC first gen academic who has a fellowship stolen from her by a wealthy connected white man who steals her work and then he asks her to do a bunch of uncredited work on the project because he’s not actually qualified…. And then they FALL IN LOVE? As a woman in academia I simply could not abide.

(Didn’t help that all of her POV chapters were ‘maybe I misjudged him and he’s a lot nicer than I thought!’ But then his POV chapters were him thinking ‘god what a bitch but Look at those Tits!’)

I also really disliked Medusa’s Sisters, which is to my mind a perfect example of everything I hate about the so-called ‘feminist’ Greek mythology reimaginings.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

My goal for next year is actually to read less! I read about 150 books per year, and my goal this coming year is to read less and write more.

[nats-reads-reviews]

Books Read in November 2024 🍂

That Night in the Library by Eva Jurczyk (3.5/5) - Pretty interesting and unique who-done-it mystery with an ending that I didn’t see coming.

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix (2.5/5) - Weird even for Grady Gendrix standards. Might have liked more if I was into heavy metal. I thought it was interesting though and some good dark humor.

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (2.5/5) - Took place in NYC which was a change for Kwan. I liked that and the lovers who deny each other finally ending up together trope but definitely didn’t compare to Crazy Rich Asians.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (4/5) - I’m glad I finally read this classic. Walker is such an amazing story-teller and the resiliency of her characters is beautiful.

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Jennifer Finney Boylan (4/5) - I ended up really enjoying this legal thriller and there were some parts that really had me shocked! I loved all the bee and honey facts spread without, as well.

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thrope (2.5/5) - I was expecting a lot more from this one. It seemed like just a bunch of stuff happening and none of it really adding to the characters development or story itself. Just kinda meh.

Shut Up, This is Serious by Caroline Ixta (3.5/5) - Reminded me so much of Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. I love any story that empowers young women to speak up and become themselves despite familial expectations. Really good coming of age story!

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeymoon (5/5) - Honestly, probably one of my favorite reads ever! This book broke and warmed my heart simultaneously. I loved the wit and uniqueness of the story and the characters. Just lovely!

The Guardians by John Grisham (4/5) - Definitely a “man’s book” and goes against what I normally gravitate towards haha but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. Grisham is a pretty good story-teller telling while advocating for reformation of the justice system in a way that doesn’t feel like he’s talking on his own personal soap box. Great ending!