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“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 AboutLove. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters,hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 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 the 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 affirmation of just how profoundly she can. Review: Everyone must read - Omg, it changed the meaning about love what I thought from childhood. It is essays about love. It is very depth takes time to process. A must read by teens, parents and everyone. Review: The Prose is a Poetry speaking of all Intricacies of Love - This was as if I met a kindred spirit to guide me and hold me in a world which feels hostile and loveless. It helps keep hope alive and encourages us to walk one more step, each new day, on the path of love.
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,213 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #348 in Personal Transformation |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 14,373 Reviews |
V**I
Everyone must read
Omg, it changed the meaning about love what I thought from childhood. It is essays about love. It is very depth takes time to process. A must read by teens, parents and everyone.
J**H
The Prose is a Poetry speaking of all Intricacies of Love
This was as if I met a kindred spirit to guide me and hold me in a world which feels hostile and loveless. It helps keep hope alive and encourages us to walk one more step, each new day, on the path of love.
A**A
Must read
Amazing book. It's a must read.
P**I
Too good
Bell hooks at her best
N**I
Compromised quality
I bought two books. Both had creases and didn’t look like a fresh copy.
S**A
Love <3
I think everyone needs to read this book, it's feel like having hot chocolate on a cool winter day! :). The ideas presented in this book are beautiful, and the print is good too.
D**A
Great
Every chapter is worth reading. This book gives a new insight on LOVE and how to be open to receive & give love when lovelessness is so pervasive in today’s time.
P**A
Least above love.
This is a man hating and seeing problems more than solution problem and how if i feel something then that should be a fact book. couldnt get through the half of it. Learnt dont judge a book by its cover once and for all
F**A
Loved it
A very gentle & loving reading session, covered so many important topics that we need to shed light on. You’d want to read it over and over again during your time, and it made me reflect on so many things. I noticed that it helped me break down beliefs I had and fears that held me back. Hope you love reading this as much as I did.
A**O
Life changing
This book broke me open and pieced me back together—bell hooks' "All About Love: New Visions" hit me like a thunderbolt, tears streaming as I read it late into Luxembourg nights between marathon training and coffee rituals. It exposed the raw voids in my life where I'd confused survival with love, from childhood neglect disguised as discipline to adult relationships poisoned by unspoken power games and fear of true vulnerability. Hooks doesn't sugarcoat; she redefines love as an active choice—care, respect, trust, honesty—demanding we dismantle greed, patriarchy, and self-betrayal first. I wept realizing my self-sabotage stemmed from unloved inner children, how grief from lost ones taught me love's endurance, not its end. Her words on spiritual love as justice pierced deepest, igniting a fire to live boldly: nurture friendships fiercely, romance without possession, community as sacred rebellion. Reading this healed fractures I carried silently—now I chase connections with open-hearted ferocity, seeing love's revolution everywhere. It hurts, it heals, it transforms. Unforgettable life-changer. 5 stars.
A**B
Great read
Great book
L**A
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S**A
Incredible insights on love and relationships
Excellent read! This book changed the way I think about love and relationships.
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