Structure

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...