What is the author's style in the nonfiction book, All About Love: New Visions?

All About Love is divided into 13 chapters, plus a Preface and an Introduction. All are of roughly equal length, with the exception of the Preface which is considerably shorter. All About Love is not a narrative book; it is a series of essays that are separated from each other by topic. The topic of each chapter is also clearly stated with the first word of each chapter title. For example, chapters are titled “Honesty,” “Spirituality,” “Romance” and so forth. This clearly indicates to readers that the book is structured by topic and also tells them what to expect from each individual chapter before they begin reading it.

While there is no narrative or chronology uniting the chapters, they are linked thematically as the book’s five themes interweave throughout them all. Most obviously, the main theme of love runs throughout the book, thus connecting all of its sub-topics through their unity with this theme. The order of the essays has also clearly been carefully chosen. The conclusion of one chapter leads naturally to the introduction of the next chapter’s topic, functioning in the same way that a paragraph hook eases transitions. For example, Chapter 2 focuses on the topic of justice and Chapter 3, which is about honesty, opens with a discussion of the importance of truth-telling in justice. These effective transitions which connect the book’s topics and chapters help to pull the reader through the book without the presence of a narrative story. Within individual chapters, hooks includes section breaks to indicate a change of sub-topic, for example, when she is transitioning from an intellectual discussion about love to a personal anecdote from her own life.