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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

28 reviews

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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amyvl93's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Essay collections are a tricky beast - as with any collection of writing there will be some that resonate, and some that hit a little less closer to home.

Jia Tolentino is a super talented writer, whose work I've read numerous times over the years, and I was excited to finally become the last millennial on earth to pick up this book. Trick Mirror has essays that cover reality TV, scamming, thoughts on weddings and broader internet culture.

Strangely enough as someone who loves a bit of pop culture criticism, Tolentino's essays on pop culture were less engaging for me, perhaps as this collection is a few years old, many of her thoughts have been reflected, shared and adapted elsewhere.

The two essays that were highlights for me were 'Ecstasy' - about Tolentino's relationship with religion and drug use and in particular, 'We Come from Old Virginia' - an essay that looks at the aftermath of the infamous Rolling Stone article about the young woman who claimed she was gang raped, a story that was later found to be false, but Tolentino's sensitive telling of a culture of covering up and/or acceptance of sexual harassment and assault is excellent. It is probably worth reading the collection for those two essays alone - and for the very honest & cringey reflections on Tolentino's brief moment of teenage reality TV stardom.

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aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I listened to this pretty quickly. Liked some parts much more than others. Some of the writing got a little drag-y, and I noticed I zoned out in some parts because of it. I don't think I would've liked it if I physically read it instead of listening to it.

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mengzhenreads's review against another edition

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4.25

Super informative and really engaging, I definitely learned a lot from this book. I think sometimes it definitely took a while to get to some of the main ideas of some of the essays, but overall they were still really interesting and enjoyable for me to read about.

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gellyreads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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stargirlmolly's review

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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issyd23's review

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funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

Reality tv and me and pure heroines we’re my favourite essays. Writing is accessible. Essays are easy to read and entertaining but intellectually add nothing new to the conversation. 3⭐️

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at806's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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lmbell's review against another edition

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emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

I found many of the essays insightful and interesting. The author challenged some of my approaches to feminist critique in a way that I found valuable.
There were some essays that I found weaker than the rest, but I guess that’s often just the nature of a collection.

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juliagulia330's review

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reflective slow-paced

0.5

this shit started a reading slump for me. boring boring boring. did not enjoy, did not have fun.

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