All About Love
At your speed≈ 5 hrs
Pages248
Audiobook≈ 8½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
248 pages works out to roughly 74,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 5 hrs — a day's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.75 out of 5, from 261 ratings.
Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.8 (Hardcover's 3.75★ from 261 ratings) + length 0.1 = 5.9. How the score works →
How long does it take to read All About Love?
All About Love is 248 pages, or roughly 74,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 7 hrs |
| Average | 250 | 5 hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 3 hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 8½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read All About Love?
- About 5 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. All About Love runs 248 pages, roughly 74,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 7 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
- How many pages is All About Love?
- 248 pages, which is about 74,000 words and 5 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
- Is All About Love worth reading?
- We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.75 out of 5 from 261 ratings, which counts for 5.8; at about 5 hrs at an average pace it earns +0.1 for being short.
- How long is the All About Love audiobook?
- About 8½ hrs, estimated from the 74,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.
From the publisher
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love.…
Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
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