All about Love: New Visions by bell hooks
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Web ID: 13392663An emotionally engaging read
This book is about understanding love and the way that it is interpreted by men and women. How, when men write about love, it is assumed that they know all about it because they’ve experienced it and should know about it. But women live in the hope of finding love; there aren’t many love stories that are written by women because they are deemed as being overly emotional, which is a bit of a hypocrisy. There are different ways that human beings go in search of love and how it can be sought out in life. It covers childhood and how our parents have looked after us and guided us because this is the first place that we, as people, learn about love. So the book covers many quotes from other notable writers and also from the Bible, how the relationship between love, dependency, and hurt all form together to mould our own egos and develop our self-worth in life. It also covers how negative aspects of love are learnt and carried forward in life from parent to child and not always just from our parents; these negative feelings can come from a relative as well, whoever it is that raised us and moulded us. It is also shown how you can change yourself to break the cycle and show your own child or even your siblings true love and devotion. I enjoyed the book and managed to learn a lot about myself while reading it, where my lifetime of hurt has come from and how I stopped it in its tracks. I wasn’t going to pass down the negativity that was thrust upon me onto my child, and this book showed me that what I did was correct in stopping negativity in its tracks.
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Lives up to the hype!
4.5 stars! I think I’m the last person to read All About Love. This is the first book I’ve read by Bell Hooks and it won’t be my last. Her writing is beautiful and I resonated very much with the book. I look forward to continuing the Love Trilogy.
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It should be remame to: LOVELESSNESS
I forced myself to read it all. As referred to by entertainment weekly on the back of her book, it is truly psychobabble. If that’s what you’re into. The book is a reference book; an ode to other authors -in almost every page she quotes someone else’s work- excessively done through the entirety of the book. Lovelessness is used so much, and as almost a negative word in its own self. That’s where it took me, the book is kind of negative. The title does not do the book justice.
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Love
Everyone should read this.
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beautiful and insightful
so many people would benefit from reading and absorbing this material and applying it to their lives. put love into everything you do through consistent action.
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All about love
Great, heartfelt and meaningful, hit me in my core.
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Beautifully written and needed definition of love.
bell hooks is one of my favorite authors and this indeed was a wonderful read. I agree with Maya Angelou “each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.”
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Just no...
There’s so many harmful generalizations in this book with weak or no sources at all the back it up. I was hoping to read a helpful book “All About Love” but it’s exactly the opposite. Bell starts the book of strong but as I continued I got more and more disappointed. As a woman who supports other women, I wouldn’t recommend this well intended, but poorly received book to anyone.
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