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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
While there were certainly many pearls of wisdom scattered in bell hooksβ essays on love, I found many of the observations and conclusions she makes to be simplistic and at times even presumptions. Within these 13 chapters, bell hooks interrogates love (what does it mean to love someone? how does love look?) against the backdrop…
3 STARS, Adult, All About Love, All About Love: New Visions, AMERICAN AUTHOR, bell hooks, Black & Black heritage authors, ESSAYS, female authors, Nonfiction, parenting, psychology, published in 1999, read in 2022, Religion, self-help, social issues, Sociology, spirituality, trying and failing @ feminism -
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
βI wonder about others like me, who seem totally fine on the outside but are rotting on the inside, where the rot is this vague state of being not-fine and not-devastated at the same time.β There was something about the title and cover of this book that brought to mind Ottessa Moshfeghβs My Year of…
1st pov, 3 STARS, Adult, anxiety, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Baek Se-hee, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, DEPRESSION, dialogue heavy, female authors, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Korea, korean author, loneliness, MEMOIR, mental health, My reviews, Nonfiction, PSYCHIATRISTS & THERAPISTS, psychological, published in 2018, read in 2022, reading, self-help, the female malaise, TRANSLATED FICTION