All About Love
- ISBN:
- 9780688168445
- Duration:
- 245 days
- Authors:
- bell hooks
- Pages:
- 240
- Rating:
- ★ ★ ★
| date started | date finished | duration | locations |
|---|
| 2019-06-16 | 2020-02-16 | 245 | San Francisco |
review
I've read 60% of the book in June 2019, and the rest in Feb 2020.
I think the book is interesting. But I don't think I learned anything groundbreaking.
I found Erich Fromm book on love to be way better.
This one had several problems:
- it was messy and entangled multiple topics: feminism, love, American society, death, religion etc.
- I felt that author described too much of her personal experiences and I felt that she wasn't over a lot of them
So those two problems made this book not that good. It didn't feel fully objective, because a lot of points were connected to personal stories with not fully processed emotions. Connection between feminism/machismo and love were not clear.
I was just reading bunch of random ideas combined together. I found a lot of stereotypes described to be far from true in my personal life experience.
Also, I'm writing this review in 2020. I think it's a first time I'm afraid to be truly open about parts I didn't like, even if there were a lot of parts I liked in the book.