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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed &lt;i&gt;All About Love: New Visions.&lt;/i&gt; She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with &lt;i&gt;Communion: The Female Search for Love.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;P&gt;Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;i&gt;Communion&lt;/i&gt; is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A woman conducts a library tour for her lover from far away.  All blue hair and fuzz they are together.  bell hooks I read.  I read some bell hooks I gush.  Tell me one thing you got out of it.  You don't fall in love, you choose it.  I don't fall in love.  I don't need to fall in love.  I can choos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76003270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't on earth figure out why I picked up this book...and then read it cover-to-cover. The female search for love? Blech.  I think the fact that bell hooks would write a book with such a horrible-sounding title intrigued me.<br/><br/>But it was surprisingly not blech-inducing. I ended up loving ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13686515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[bell hooks always has the elixer when my soul needs healing....i have read  many of her books during times when i have felt shattered and scattered... and her words have been the glue that has helped get me back together...  last night i delved back into the chapter &quot;gaining power, losing love&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6282704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like feminist theory/thinking, this is definitely a great read, and written by one of the best. bell hooks critiques the concept of ‘love’ from a feminist perspective as well as her own personal stories. Even though women’s liberation has made it possible for women to enjoy power, jobs ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29109340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Communion threw some heavy truths at me; some things that seemed obvious on the page but when juxtaposed against my life, sort of shocked me out of my body. The last few chapters were extremely useful, as they explored different ways to be in relationship with other people. The chapter on Romantic F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15152721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Total self-help, self-awareness dribble for the middle-aged and near-post-Second-Wave feminism.  I was very disappointed in bell hooks and the whole &quot;the journey to love is self-love&quot;, it's been done, give me something new to use.  Oh, that and the book has more to do with finding and real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55793765">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first bell hooks book and I loved it. Her critique of feminism's failure to include love in its revolution and the wisdom she's gained from living and loving through the women's lib movement was insightful and interesting. It's the 3rd in her series of books on love and I can't wait to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57817652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this, read this, read this!  Wow, what a brilliant, inspiring, empowering, phenomenal book from the amazing bell hooks.  She offers a powerful critique of life and relationships within a context of patriarchy (where domination and submission exist, where aging is tragic), and describes powerful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55005559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book introduces the idea that there is not a fundamental emotional difference between men and women - other than what has been instilled in us by society. It is beautifully written and a pleasure to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read some of bell hooks stuff before but I really really enjoyed this book. She gives my feminist inclinations solid ideas to stand on. Beautifully written. Great for female intellects. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On a different wave than &quot;Captivating,&quot; this book changed my life even more.  I read it at a time when I needed to learn to value my self-worth and open up to love from different people in my life.  Within a month of reading it, I met my now fiance.  I believe this book opens up your energ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15506408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sometimes the right book falls into your hands--]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read hooks' book, All About Love, several years ago and was a bit disappointed on her take of love. Communion: The Search for Female Love, was definitely more of what I was looking for! She talks so specifically about love in many different aspects and is always just so clear in her writing; self-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14435583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book. Regardless of whether you identify as a feminist or not, bell hooks knows how to address an entire population of women, across cultures and across generations.<br/>One of the things that hooks talks about in this book are the ways in which women have been taught to lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23807135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admire bell hooks' ability to convey complex, academic feminist theory in such an accessible way.  This is one of two sequals to All About Love.  She troubles the common feminists who have have historically prioritized achieving power over love and mutuality. I think her most interesting chapters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24176000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[some people ponder the meaning of life, i ponder the meaning of love... hmm, maybe love is the meaning of life, therefore im pondering one and the same???   let me think about that..]]></body>
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