All About Love
New Visions
bell hooks argues that love is an action rather than a feeling, and that we are taught almost nothing about how to do it.
bell hooks argues that most of us are taught to want love but never taught to practise it, and that love is not a feeling but a set of actions: care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect. Moving between memoir, cultural criticism and self-help, she takes apart the romantic myths that leave people lonely. Direct and quietly radical. Emma Watson chose it for Our Shared Shelf in March 2016, in honour of hooks having interviewed her.
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Maria Popova
How to rediscover love from a place of wholeness, in a spirit of fearlessness, is what bell hooks (September 25, 1952–December 15, 2021) explores in her wonderful 2000 book All About Love (public library) — a field guide to “the practice of love in everyday life” and an impassioned manifesto for transforming our culture into one “where love’s sacred presence can be felt everywhere.”
Emma Watson
This month's book choice is in honor of bell hooks who interviewed me for Paper magazine this month.
Book Club · March 2016
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