A review by emmalong
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

3.0

i am coming to the realization that this author may not be for me. i loved cultish but not so much this one or wordslut. it’s hard to explain, but it feels like something is missing from her books. as someone with a psychology degree, nothing in this book came as a surprise or informative to me and i’m not even sure if the author’s additions were profound enough to be put in. it felt like an oddly organized memoir. the order of the biases were strange and it felt like the book ended on a strange note. overall, i don’t think it’s awful or harmful, but maybe just not for me.