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Also a Poet has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, according to the review-aggregation website Book Marks. [5] As of August 2023, it has a 4.07/5 star rating on GoodReads. [6] Prior to publication, the book landed five starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [7] Publishers Weekly, [8] Booklist, [9] Library Journal, [10] and BookPage. [11]
All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published on December 22, 1999 that discusses aspects of romantic love in modern society. The book is organized into thirteen chapters, in which each chapter discusses an aspect of love. Within these chapters, hooks also provides the reader with reflections on her own journey of love, as well ...
The complementarity of the two sexes, then, is rooted in a relationship of love, and the very differences between men and women allow them to exist in this relationship together. [16] Since man is a composite of body and soul, and since the body makes visible the invisible nature of the soul, the very fact that men's and women's bodies ...
Through practicing love, and thus producing love, the individual overcomes the dependence on being loved, having to be "good" to deserve love. He contrasts the immature phrases "I love because I am loved" and "I love you because I need you" with mature expressions of love, "I am loved because I love", and "I need you because I love you." [33]
[1] They called Mac Barnett's writing "moving, but never cloying," and concluded the review by calling the book "[w]holly lovable." [1] Reviewing for The Booklist, Lucinda Whitehurst called the prose in What is Love? "lovely and lyrical," and noted how the words and pictures "work together to create layers of thought and understanding." [2]
The book examines the phenomenon of love and human connection from a combined scientific and cultural perspective. It attempts to reconcile the language and insights of humanistic inquiry and cultural wisdom (literature, song, poetry, painting, sculpture, dance and philosophy) with the more recent findings of social science, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.
True Love reached number seven on The New York Times Best Seller list, and number five on the Hardcover non-fiction chart. [7]In a review, Elise De Los Santos of RedEye remarked, "Like a broken record, she repeats her “love yourself” mantra again and again throughout the book, which devolves at certain points into a one-sided life-coaching session."
Crazy Love deals with the idea of the average Christian's love of God and learning how to further develop those feelings into a "crazy, relentless, all-powerful love." In the format of Crazy Love Chan dedicates three sections to renewing understanding around the character of God and seven chapters encourage Christians to examine themselves.