All About Romance

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love is comprised of, but not equal to: commitment, affection, recognition, respect, trust, communication.

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If we're lucky, hooks may include a personal anecdote or refer to one of the numerous (mostly unsourced) quotes, but that's as far as the scientific/academic angle of this book goes. bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Waltins, in 1952, an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist, recently died — [December 15, 2021]— I had never read her work until this book “All About Love”. A fun and heartwarming YA Rom-com (based on the author’s own teenage diaries) that follows the loveably sassy, Roman Bright a non-binary teen from Tynemouth who dreams of having their own movie worthy romance. For all the expressions of feminism and sexism throughout the novel, there is a deep grain of misogyny. However, watch out for the wacky Benny Hill-esque tracks which play during the fun or comedic scenes.While she does not equate spiritual love to organized religion, I still find this whole reasoning a little biased, considering what we know of history and religion. As an adult, it makes me hope that queer teenagers do get to have the freedom to make mistakes and be themselves and grow, even though I'm not really the age of the target audience of the book itself. I liked that she really took the time to find a definition of love that spoke to her, and I liked the one she came up with (essentially, defining love as the will to extend one's self to nurture one's own or another's growth). But Poppy knows their friendship never will, and she anticipates every getaway, looking forward to time spent in Alex’s company and the fun they have together. Too many of us need to cling to a notion of love that either makes abuse acceptable or at least makes it seem that whatever happened was not that bad.

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Roman is (thankfully) much loved and supported at home and their relationship with their mother and brother was particularly heartwarming. I think in saying this, she articulated something that we all know intellectually, but in a way that really translates. This is a discussion post from the Motorcycle Club Heroes class I taught at RWA University in February. Concurrently, [Lewinsky] manipulates facts and details, and ultimately prostitutes herself by selling her story for material gain because she is greedy for fame and money, and society condones this get-rich-quick scheme.

The best and worst thing about this book was hooks' commitment throughout the work to making powerful, decisive statements that wanted to leave little room open for argument. On Sunday, after two of the plugins we use for comments and the forums were updated, five months of forums vanished and the forums themselves wouldn’t function properly. I agree with most of bell hooks’ thoughts in this book and the notion that love can be a transformative power that heals individuals, communities, and even public policies and institutions if we prioritized it over greed. After a horrible incident that happened at the end of Year 10, Roman is hoping that Year 11 will be different, and it is. recognizing that abuse - power-control cannot coexist with love — in families- church- with friendships - in community - and with self-love ….

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People We Meet on Vacation is a novel about a wanderer and a homebody, and how their friendship changes through a dozen years of summer trips.

This is the first time I'm reading a book from this author and I genuinely really enjoyed it and will definitely read more of Tawse's work!

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Sure, the dichotomy between lies and truth can be very black and white, but I do believe that truth telling should not always triumph over lying and that lying isn't always inherently wrong/bad. bell hooks, African-American feminist author of the revelationary The Will to Change, creates another visionary work with All About Love. Unfortunately, this great performance also means that he destroyed any possibility for Park Hee Soon (forgettable) to form a compelling second lead and badly overshadowed co-star Lee Min Jung (passable). Meanwhile, the references to LGBTQ people are sparse, with hooks' own lesbian sister being brandished as a lesson on forgiving homophobic family members, because if you're lucky they might one day respect your identity! When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

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.