Tag: rufi thorpe
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2025 Tournament of Books: Margo’s Got Money Troubles vs. Someone Like Us
The last of the first-round matchups (which means that after this, my write-ups get a lot shorter since I’ll have already said my piece on each of the books). On the one hand, we have Margo’s Got Money Troubles, one of those easy to describe books: A college student who has become pregnant after having an…
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2024 Tournament of Books: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store vs Blackouts/The Bee Sting
And the final match-up of the Tournament of Books. I used to think that the judgments and reviews were done in real time, judges in later rounds furiously working their way through the books to be sure they were able and hoping that the book they’d left at the bottom of the stack of potential…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Play-in round
For the first time, I’ve made the effort to try to read all the Tournament of Books entries before the tournament starts instead of relying on dumb luck to let me have read perhaps two or three. Having done this, I’ve decided to do my own parallel judging (I’ve been filling out my brackets as…