Mariana Mas Books | BOOKTUBE PRIZE COMMENTARY // 2022 Nonfiction Division Octafinals Books @marianamasbooks | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 55 minutes ago.
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THINGS / CHANNELS / PEOPLE:

Booktube Prize Website (to download checklist): booktubeprize.org
Octafinals announcement Video: youtu.be/mok3Op5N3gU
Robert's channel: youtube.com/c/BarterHordes
Jennifer Brook's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCjfhvxeGiBS4tomHfws4kVg
Kazen's reaction video: youtu.be/XxQlmMaRNJs

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VIDEO CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro
00:46 - What’s the Booktube Prize?
5:37 - My vote for Round 1

7:27- BOOKS I VOTED FOR THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE LONGLIST:
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time, Craig Taylor
Francis Bacon: Revelations, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast, Cynthia Saltzman
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays, Jenny Diski
Walking with Ghosts, Gabriel Byrne
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, Glenn Frankel

11:41 - BOOK I’M MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO:
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790, Ritchie Robertson

13:16 - OTHER BOOKS I’M EXCITED ABOUT:
A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa
These Precious Days: Essays, Ann Patchet
White Magic: Essays, Elissa Washuta
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe

13:57 - BOOK I’M MOST CURIOUS ABOUT:
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, Tiya Miles

14:53 - BOOKS I’M LEAST LOOKING FORWARD TO:
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C. Ford

17:40 - Outro

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