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A review by kkenna7
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

4.0

I had to sleep on this one before reviewing and I'm still not entirely sure how to go about it. The writing was, obviously, incredible. The audio, read by Hanif, was amazing as expected. If I'm being 100% honest (and it'd be off-brand of me not to), my rating might be more of a 3.5/3.75 out of 5, personally. While I love so much of this, there were times in the middle where I felt like I was getting lost? It's true that you don't have to know about or even care about basketball to read/enjoy this, but for me personally, using a metaphor of something that I have no personal connection to makes for a bigger hurdle for me and I struggled a tiny bit at the end of the day. Still wonderful, still worth the time spent, etc. I think I'm mostly disappointed in myself for not loving it as much as I wanted to lmao.