All About Love: New Visions

This book reads way too much like a self-help number for my liking (there's a lot of references to self-help books in the book too) and though hooks went through some measure of effort to avoid preaching for her own form of faith the amount of references to Christianity and even angels didn't sit quite right with me (it's the ostentation of it that bothers me not so much the religiosity).

There is quite a few references to Erich Fromm (his name is mentioned 12 times in the book) and his influence seems to drip from the page in a way that I would have expected from a college student but not so much from someone with such an eminent reputation as hooks.

There's also a few things that really didn't age well such the aggressive slut shaming of Monica Lewinsky and the victim blaming of Nicole Brown (though that one seemed rather unintentional), sweeping generalizations about men and women with a lack of recognition of how these behaviors are influenced and enforced by our economic system and so on.

While there were a few points which I found interesting it was overall a disappointment.