A review by leanne_who_reads
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.5

I don't know what to think or make of this. I found it to be quite a slow read at first but after the first 160 or so pages it began to pick up the pace for me. While I was reading this, in the beginning, I found it hard to grasp much of what the author was saying. To be honest, I felt like I was dumb and that I was not computing any of what she was saying in the first few chapters. It all just went over my head. 

There was some stuff about dance, exercise and Lululemon that I can vaguely recall.

I quite enjoyed the parts of the book where she was talking about the sexual assaults that happened in UVA, as well as some of the stuff she had to say about the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Overall this book is about the author's experiences growing up in a religion, leaving her religion, going on a show in her tweens, going into journalism and the Peace Corps after college, not wanting to get married and all of her thoughts about society and how she rejects society's norms, doesn't want to be diminished by society, as well as wanting to be glorified when she wants to.