Rufi Thorpe Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/rufi-thorpe/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:44:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Rufi Thorpe Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/rufi-thorpe/ 32 32 38398750 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 Margo’s Got Money Troubles https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/margos-got-money-troubles/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/margos-got-money-troubles/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:01:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18506 Margo is 19 and languishing at community college when she is swept into an affair with a married professor. She ends up pregnant and decides to have the baby. What follows in Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a story and characters that are frustrating, quirky, and endearing. Let’s jump right into the frustrating. My pragmatic nature […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/margos-got-money-troubles/feed/ 0 18506 Six Best Books of 2020 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/six-best-books-of-2020/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/six-best-books-of-2020/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2020 05:54:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15185 In the same way 2020 turned life upside-down it had the same impact on people’s reading. For me, I read more nonfiction than ever before—from 11% up to 20%. Even more surprising, after reviewing my 2020 book ratings I saw how varied my favorite reading ended up being. Here are the six best new releases […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/six-best-books-of-2020/feed/ 7 15185 The Girls from Corona del Mar https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-girls-from-corona-del-mar/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-girls-from-corona-del-mar/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 04:42:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14492 When Lorrie Ann and Mia become best friends, Mia believes herself to be the shadow behind Lorrie Ann’s golden girl. By the time they reach high school Mia is even more sure that Lorrie Ann is everything she is not. She is kind, caring and good, part of a tight knit family while Mia sees […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-girls-from-corona-del-mar/feed/ 8 14492 The Knockout Queen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/the-knockout-queen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/the-knockout-queen/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:41:28 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14260 Michael and Bunny are the unlikeliest of friends. Polar opposites in almost every way: his mother is in prison so he lives with his aunt, while she lives in a mansion with her father. He is less of a young man than he is supposed to be with long hair, a pierced nose, small and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/the-knockout-queen/feed/ 4 14260 Dear Fang, With Love https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/dear-fang-with-love/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/dear-fang-with-love/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:02:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6515 Because she wasn’t a trendsetter. No one could hope to be like her. She was one of a kind and, because of this, very much alone. About whether she was pleased with this state of affairs or saddened, I was never entirely sure. Maybe she would have liked to belong. ‘She’ is Vera, Lucas’s teenage […]

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