2021 BookTube Prize Octafinals | NonFiction Group A

i've finished listening to the audiobook of a promised land and i have to say that was surprisingly enjoyable not that i was expecting to dislike the book i wasn't upset by the fact that i got assigned it but i didn't know exactly where i'd fall i could have been in that middle range of like yeah it was decent but i was actually interested in listening to this for the full 29 hours and 10 minutes that it was

i think because i liked half of the essays in here and the other half i was either clearly confused or could just take it or leave it this one kind of falls more towards the middle bottom

there were moments with particular poems or certain more academic things that i struggled with but i think overall i learned a lot from this book i liked how it was set up and it was just different in a good way

i have now finished surviving autocracy by masha gessen and unfortunately this one was not so great i it's still a three-star read because the stuff within this was still interesting and informative to some degree but i had problems with the book

it's a four-star read it's certainly worth your time if you're already interested in reading it but it wasn't quite at that level that i was hoping it would be at

i have finished world of wonders by aimee nozuku matatil thank god that book was short because it was not for me at all there was one essay in that collection that i enjoyed but all the rest of them i found to be mediocre or just kind of bad