a loving ethic could look like this: working for individuals you admire and respect; giving all to our relationships; seeing our lives and fates as tied to everyone else's on the planet It’s such an immersive story, with intrigue from start to finish. It’s a fun story all about fitting in and learning who’s best to let yourself bring your walls down. It’s about learning who you are and supporting those around you… it’s just, brilliant. I loved it! females are given more socially accepted space to search for and talk about love, but are not necessarily any better equipped than males to BE loving.

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dissimilation: taking on whatever appearance is needed to manipulate a situation. one of the barriers to truth-telling in love. Many people find it helpful to critically examine the past, particularly childhood, to chart their internalization of the messages that they were not worthy, not enough, that they were crazy, stupid, monstrous, and so on. Simply learning how we have acquired feelings of worthiness rarely enables us to change things; it is usually only one stage in the process. When she was on, this authoritative voice felt like a revelation -- such as when she declares that abuse and love cannot coexist. It's a beautiful, affirming, heartbreaking statement, that seems to have a large weight of truth behind it, at once the most and least obvious thing. The definition of love that she borrows and endorses is also very powerful and transformative. Not to mention, incredibly useful. While there were a couple of bits of this book I liked (hence the two stars), on the whole, this is a thumbs down for me.

I have to say I had mixed feelings about this book. I found it eye-opening at times, but other times I simply couldn't connect with it at all, and couldn't quite move past some gender generalisations that the author so passionately claims herself to stand against.

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recognizing that abuse - power-control cannot coexist with love — in families- church- with friendships - in community - and with self-love …. But when she isn't on -- the voice feels moralizing and sermon-like, hard to swallow. I mean, she really used the phrase "hedonistic pleasure" seriously. & her thoughts on work, her feeling that work can be bearable if done with love, feels downright degrading, especially alongside the way she talks about things like having TWO HOMES, one in the city, one outside of the city -- a pretty extreme display of class privilege. I feel that hooks sees too much room for possibility in a world so totally dominated by capitalism. Could it be JJ? Their somewhat secret boyfriend/lover of last year who was the cause of Roman's end of term misery? Is this his way of apologising?Honestly, the long and short of it is that this hit me in many ways. It helped me identify places to grow - in choosing honesty, in what I perceive as love or as loving.

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To give two brief criticisms, because it wasn't actually perfect, and that's important: it's pretty god-heavy. If that's not your thing, take note. bell loves god. Also, it's pretty gender-essentialist. I agree, for example, that men are shamed out of revealing their needs and wants for love more than women are, but there is nary a mention of genderqueer identities. What happens if you are neither from Mars NOR Venus?? It’s like my friends are allowed to exist because they’re just the right amount of queer, but I’m too much." 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! Enter Beau, a new student to the school. Quiet, observant and with a whole lot going on. Roman can’t quite figure Beau out but they seek to get on well together and at least their time spent together makes Roman forget about JU for the most part. But Roman is receiving strange notes and there are paintings cropping up around the school - both attributed to a character called Big Red. No-one knows Big Red’s identity but Roman is almost certain it’s JJ.Rep// Mc is Non-binary (they/them) & queer/gay, gay male SC, sapphic BIPOC SC, questioning/ closeted SC. While most of the book involved talk of spirituality, once it crossed over into talking about straightforward religion, I started to feel my eyes glazing over. Spirituality is one thing, as far as I'm concerned, because it can be whatever it means to each individual. But religion is usually of an organized establishment, and my experience means something very specific to me, so love in that context is basically the same thing I've heard most of my life from everyone else - that to be religious means to LOVE and then those same people turned around and beat their children after church because of the smallest infraction. That's what I witnessed, though thankfully not in my own household.