Review by wastelander - Paris: The Memoir

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Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

There’s two things I love about memoirs: 1) Learning about someone’s life and 2) Learning about someone’s authentic self.

The hard thing about the second part is balancing the appreciation for someone showing you who they truly are and not actually liking that person.

I think the hold up for me is that Paris has been through a lot, but doesn’t always apply the empathy you would think she has. The specific item I’m thinking about is when she’s happy that a blackmailer ended up killing himself because, karma. I can understand the pain and hate towards someone who is blackmailing you, but I struggled to understand how someone who had been through so much couldn’t pull even the smallest amount of empathy towards someone who decided to take their own life. Is the problem that the book didn’t adequately explain the pain the blackmailer caused Paris? Or is the problem a straight lack of empathy?

Lack of empathy aside, the details Paris shares about her experience in the “troubled teen” schools is a lot to process and I’m so thankful she shared her experience. It’s something that I don’t know if I would have learned about outside of this memoir, and it’ll never cease to be mind blowing to me how prevalent abuse is.

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