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Hope rated A Wizard of Earthsea: 5 stars

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (2004)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)

A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by …

Hope rated Em: 4 stars

No cover — Kim Thuy: Em (2020, Libre Expression)

Hope rated Revenant gun: 5 stars

Revenant gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Machineries of empire -- book three)

"Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an …

Hope rated The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: 5 stars

V. E. Schwab, V. E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover, 2020, Tor Books)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab, V. E. Schwab

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a …

Hope rated A Darker Shade of Magic: 3 stars

V. E. Schwab: A Darker Shade of Magic (Hardcover, 2015, Tor)

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab (Shades of Magic, #1)

STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS.

Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with …

Hope rated Coïts: 3 stars

Coïts by Véronique Marcotte (L'orphéon)

Hope rated Raven Stratagem: 5 stars

Yoon Ha Lee: Raven Stratagem (2017, Solaris)

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #2)

When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her …

Hope rated Piranesi: 4 stars

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (Paperback, 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …

Hope rated Rosewater: 3 stars

Tade Thompson: Rosewater (Paperback, 2018, Orbit)

Rosewater by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents …

Hope reviewed All about love by bell hooks

bell hooks: All about love (2000, William Morrow)

"A visionary and accessible book, bell hooks's All About Love offers radical new ways to …

Review of 'All about love' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

This was a bit of a miss for me, which is disappointing to myself because I really want to get behind everything bell hooks writes. But I found there was actually a huge amount of really harsh this or that black & white aspirational blanket statements and not very much room for nuance or even concrete guidance on how to get to this "true love". One of the first and biggest ideas the book opens with is that abuse and love can not coexist and at first I thought I was just being resistant to having unexamined assumptions shaked but now at the end of the book I do think I can say actually, no, I disagree, I still do think love and abuse can coexist. it's not GOOD, it's quite bad, but hurt people hurt people and you can hurt people you love deeply, the two things can both …

This was a bit of a miss for me, which is disappointing to myself because I really want to get behind everything bell hooks writes. But I found there was actually a huge amount of really harsh this or that black & white aspirational blanket statements and not very much room for nuance or even concrete guidance on how to get to this "true love". One of the first and biggest ideas the book opens with is that abuse and love can not coexist and at first I thought I was just being resistant to having unexamined assumptions shaked but now at the end of the book I do think I can say actually, no, I disagree, I still do think love and abuse can coexist. it's not GOOD, it's quite bad, but hurt people hurt people and you can hurt people you love deeply, the two things can both be true.

BUT a lot of the writing was beautiful and inspiring and all of the emphasis on love as being an action and something to work on rather than something passive that happens to you I appreciated, bel hooks writing style is always lovely, which was a bit redeeming, and I want to pick out some of the reference works cited.