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females are given more socially accepted space to search for and talk about love, but are not necessarily any better equipped than males to BE loving. In the area of reflection, reading parts of this book can feel despairingly uncomfortable … it can also be healing. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. It is no easy task to be self-loving. Simple axioms that make self-love sound easy only make matters worse. It leaves many people wondering why, if it is so easy, they continue to be trapped by feelings of low self-esteem or self hatred. Using a working definition of love that tells us it is the action we take on behalf of our own or another’s spiritual growth provides us with a beginning blueprint for working on the issue of self-love. When we see love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, knowledge, and responsibility, we can work on developing these qualities or, if they are already a part of who we are, we can learn to extend them to ourselves”. Enter Beau, a new student to the school. Quiet, observant and with a whole lot going on. Roman can’t quite figure Beau out but they seek to get on well together and at least their time spent together makes Roman forget about JU for the most part. But Roman is receiving strange notes and there are paintings cropping up around the school - both attributed to a character called Big Red. No-one knows Big Red’s identity but Roman is almost certain it’s JJ. This was a very enjoyable YA read with lots of pop culture references, about NB MC Roman sorting out their (love) life and growing up in the northern town of Tynemouth.

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In any case. There's this attitude that love and the ability to love others comes from that very specific source of spirituality, which I disagree with. I am not religious, I do not believe in the same things a lot of other people believe in, but I am capable of love, I am capable of compassion, I am capable of having morals, all without believe in God. I believe in being a good person, which transcends religion - or at least it should. If you love the musical 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie', this book has so many similar vibes and was a genuine pleasure to read!! but as I began my reading … I was ‘overwhelmingly’ surprised how ‘heavy-hearted’ and down-right painful this book’ ABOUT LOVE was. The low level of angst and satisfying wrap to most conflicts in All About My Romance take down its rewatchability, but in a good way. I feel like the sweet and comedic scenes are definitely worth a revisit though, and there are several I'd love to see again. Roman Bright has always loved love stories. But being a non-binary teenager in a small northern town means their dating pool is limited and they haven’t had their own sweeping romance … yet.It’s like my friends are allowed to exist because they’re just the right amount of queer, but I’m too much." Now, where do I begin? I can begin by saying WOW! What an amazing read! From start to finish, All About Romance has been non - stop great and I just couldn’t put it down! All About Romance" is full of dramatics, secrets and a ton of loveable characters with the messiness that is secondary School. I would say the first half or more really did work for me. hooks writes here about LOVE, the power of LOVE, the way LOVE is viewed in our western culture, the problems some people have with LOVE, etc. etc. She touched on topics that made sense to me. What especially worked for me was a section on Commitment that talked about the workplace, and since I work in a place that doesn't not necessarily foster a loving environment all the time, which I recognize more now that I've removed myself from some of the larger negativeness, I found what she had to say about love in the workplace especially profound. She recognizes that most people think a loving workplace is a thing of myths, but I do believe it can exist, but that so many people are wrapped up in gossip and not showing their true selves, so it's next to impossible for any love to grow out of that. I don't think she necessarily expects people to hold hands and sing Kumbayah all day long - she understands that with love comes work, hard work, it doesn't come easily.

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This is a tough one: bell hooks is a pioneer of the idea of intersectionality, but the book, published in 2000, already feels dated - which might be a good thing, as the topics discussed have become more mainstream. hooks' ethics of love touches upon subjects like gender-specific child-rearing and violence against children, love as action, toxic masculinity and self-care, and I suppose at least the two latter concepts haven't been a thing in the year 2000. So in a way, hooks was at the forefront of some ways of thinking that are by now central to the discourse about leading a good life. This book will challenge readers and make many of us uncomfortable. hooks interrogates normalized mediums of love in our society - romantic love, the nuclear family, etc. - and shows how these default systems can lead to problems. She touches on such an important and thought-provoking set of topics, including: how the media almost never portrays healthy, communicative relationships, how capitalism and patriarchy ruin love by forcing women to provide emotional labor while men do not, and how we take friendships for granted because of romance. Throughout all of this, she illuminates a path toward a more loving relationship with yourself and others, so we can all work toward a more loving society. A powerful quote about friendship: 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’”.

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When I was a child, it was clear to me that life was not worth living if we did not know love. I wish I could testify that I came to this awareness because of the love I felt in my life. But it was love’s absence that let me know how much love mattered”. Brilliant, intriguing and fast-paced … I loved Roman and Beau and I think their story is going to find a lot of hearts!’ L. D. Lapinski, author of Jamie To give two brief criticisms, because it wasn't actually perfect, and that's important: it's pretty god-heavy. If that's not your thing, take note. bell loves god. Also, it's pretty gender-essentialist. I agree, for example, that men are shamed out of revealing their needs and wants for love more than women are, but there is nary a mention of genderqueer identities. What happens if you are neither from Mars NOR Venus??

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Bottom line: What worked for me here really worked for me; what didn't work for me really didn't work for me. I would not recommend this book to anyone reading bell hooks for the first time - this is probably not the place to start, unless all of what I wrote about above regarding Christianity is something you're interested in. As a queer YA book set in the north of England, All About Romance definitely stands out, showing one teenager's experiences of growing up different in a small town and trying to deal with that. Consequently, Roman is your classic flawed young adult protagonist: they frequently don't see things from other people's points of view and get caught up in their own ideas of what is happening. Supporting characters like Roman's mum and best friends are there to try and help them have a bit of perspective, and also to provide support to Roman, showing that despite difficulties at school, there's still people around them who love them for who they are. It's good to see Roman as a teenage non-binary character whose story is not about coming out, and who is allowed to be a sometimes annoying teenager who throws out too many pop culture references. recognizing that abuse - power-control cannot coexist with love — in families- church- with friendships - in community - and with self-love …. But when she isn't on -- the voice feels moralizing and sermon-like, hard to swallow. I mean, she really used the phrase "hedonistic pleasure" seriously. & her thoughts on work, her feeling that work can be bearable if done with love, feels downright degrading, especially alongside the way she talks about things like having TWO HOMES, one in the city, one outside of the city -- a pretty extreme display of class privilege. I feel that hooks sees too much room for possibility in a world so totally dominated by capitalism.You don't realize until you read this how we treat love like a silly subject as a culture, how we kind of giggle at it and reduce its significance. This reminds you of how we can all benefit from taking love seriously, from studying it like the subject it is. It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives”.



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