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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

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A Symphony of Savage Hearts (Season of the Vampire, #3; Fae Guardians, #6)

Post from the The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love forum

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Some (short) quotes that I’ve liked this far;

Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving. . Fear keeps us from being. Lose the men in our lives… . We cannot change men but we can encourage, implore, and affirm their will to change. . The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity.

This is my first time reading bell hooks but I’m enjoying it so far. It’s remarkable how timely a lot of it still feels, despite having been published over 20 years ago.

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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medievalmushroom commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Authors you avoid ?

Are there any authors you avoid ? If you avoid a certain author , why do you? Is there a specific reason to avoid them? Are they anti lgbtq, anti women , etc ?

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Nonfiction Spoilers

My hot take: I think most nonfiction books don’t need spoilers. I recently read (and loved) the serviceberry. The forum was less compelling to me. I get spoilers in fiction — you’re spoiling the plot. But I’m a little lost on what counts as a spoiler in most nonfiction.

I’m not asking folks to change their spoiler behavior, but I’m curious: What constitutes a spoiler for you in nonfiction?

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.

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