By Eleni Anayiotou
hook’s incisive pen is what makes her, her. If you disagree, good. She does not write to be agreeable.
All About Love is made to be a manifesto., Wired with constitutional terms, hooks makes bold statements, which might be (and are) contested, but that is one of the greatest virtues of this book. It is a rigorous examination of what we take as truisms about love.
hooks disbands the myth of Love as a hazy, irrational feeling, and replaces it with a version that requires conscious commitment, effort, and devotion. Her version of Love is relevanton a personal level, but simultaneously raises bigger questions: tying our modern experience of love to capitalism and consumerism.
Essentially, hooks shows us that there is a better, more meaningful way to love.
