All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1) by bell hooks
A Review By: NJH
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.
As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
Review Notes:
Audio Book Publication Year: 2023
An installment in a Series? Yes
Narrator (s): January LaVoy
Horror done the Neo-Black way.
Simply a book about love. Not just romantic love but all types of love. She did the research.
What is Love? Prepare to embark on a soul-stirring journey. Hooks explores the multifaceted dimensions of love, through societal, spiritual, and emotional implications. The research was vast. The practical approach she suggested made me rethink and ponder about what I was taught or shown about love. For this, you really need a hard copy. Too many moments of highlights and side note taken. I really wish a study guide was available to go along with this book. Everyone should read this book. Parents can better share love. The simple fact that most books written about "love" are mainly written by men had me in awe. The narrator’s voice matched the author’s words.
The book is little repetitive, but some statements needed to be repeated to support new information. Just understand she will repeat some things.
Reading Recommendation? Yes!
Rating: 5 (I need another one!)
Content Warnings? Sexual abuse/violence
