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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

April 13, 2023 by Jake 1 Comment

bell hooks’ The Will to Change wasn’t just a good book in a sense that books can be quantified in such a manner. It was one that shifted my paradigm and also affirmed me in so many ways. As lauded as that one is, All About Love is considered her seminal text and is, to borrow a phrase from current parlance, having a moment. It’s been largely reissued and reintroduced to a new generation of readers. Once I got over what I wanted it to be and appreciated it […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: All About Love, bell hooks, essays, Love

Jake's CBR15 Review No:47 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: All About Love, bell hooks, essays, Love ·
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Sometimes a good book just doesn’t do it for you.

April 14, 2016 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I came to All About Love: New Visions via The Shared Shelf group over on Goodreads (its Emma Watson’s Feminist book club). I didn’t read the February selection, but I thought this one, the March selection, sounded like a good idea. Written in 1999, All About Love is a series of interconnected non-fiction essays by bell hooks where she endeavors to explain how our everyday understandings of giving and receiving love often fail us. I’ll admit, I was left cold in the first few chapters. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: All About Love, bell hooks, faintingviolet, feminism, read harder challenge, The Shared Shelf

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: All About Love, bell hooks, faintingviolet, feminism, read harder challenge, The Shared Shelf ·
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