Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

10 reviews

camoo3032's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.75

The first half was a bit of a struggle to get through but I thoroughly enjoyed the second half. My biggest criticism would be that she often recounts information or includes personal tales that are tangential to the point that she's trying to make. I also fear that aspects of this book will lose their relevance the further away we get from the Trump Administrative 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Genocide, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Abortion, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Sexual content, Transphobia, Classism, Slavery, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Infidelity, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, War, and Fire/Fire injury

epiphyte's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

This collection, like many of the essays within it, starts out strong but flickers at its end. I subscribe to similar delusions and thus fundamentally enjoyed the left-of-liberal millennial navel-gazing at which Jia Tolentino excels. There is rigor to the self-interrogations in here, but I think we still stand to get closer to the truth. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Rape

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This author writes well-structured, powerful essays. Her writing will give me a lot to think about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Bullying, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Addiction, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Stalking, Racism, Medical content, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Religious bigotry, and Hate crime

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, Terminal illness, Ableism, Mass/school shootings, Child death, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Transphobia, and War

marabdelmageed's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Amazingly written, and I learned so much. This book gave me much to think about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Classism, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming

julied's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Misogyny

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcohol

jenniferpalmblad's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

arree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

nevernat's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective

4.0

this book was not at all what I expected. when I first picked it up, I didn't know much about it other than the topic of the first essay, "The I in Internet" (which is the main reason I wanted to read the book in the first place; I had been looking for books about social media and internet culture and thought the entire book was going to be exactly like that first essay in terms of subject matter, which it isn't, in case you're wondering; though social media culture is a major theme, it's not all that Trick Mirror is about) and assumed that all, or at least most, nonfiction was dry and uninteresting and that I was going to end up returning my copy back to the library within an hour of reading.

that, as you can tell by my four star rating, was not the case at all, and I have to say, I think Trick Mirror might be one of my favorite books that I've read this year. though I didn't "get" and/or didn't particularly enjoy reading every individual essay ("Ecstasy" was my favorite, half due to the beautiful writing and half due to the fact I understood it the most), there was just something about the experience of reading the collection as a whole. Jia Tolentino's voice is witty and refreshing and kept me hooked, even when I didn't necessarily understand what she was saying (as much as I loved it, her writing felt very challenging to comprehend at times). these essays have opened my eyes to the beauty of a genre I've disregarded my entire life, and I'm so excited to read—and learn to write—more nonfiction like this in the future.

anyways, I hope to come back to this book someday, at a time in my life where I'm able to really digest the contents of every single essay, but for now, I'm content with where it's taken me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming

bencaroline's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Bullying, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Confinement, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Racism