Reviews with content warning for Miscarriage - Conversations on Love

It's a great book but not to read just because, it's a book that's more suitable just to refer to at certain times. Will still read on it but choosing my passages and moments.

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poisonivy's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

there were some really good nuggets of wisdom in here, but overall i didn’t connect as much as i wanted to. while i appreciate the framing about the author’s personal experience, particularly of miscarriage, it felt like it overshadowed a lot of the messages in the interviews. also, the summaries at the end of each interview got pretty painfully repetitive and unnecessary by the end

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lenkusia's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

this felt like a very long and very good therapy session. the one that i leave with eyes red and puffy from tears but also with genuine happiness and hope.
natasha lunn talks to experts, authors, journalists and just loved and loving people about different aspects of love and lost. the form of the book, a collection of interviews is fun to read and i really loved how in between the conversations there were these “memoir-ish” bits in which we could get to know the author and her experiences with love and lost more. about that, please check the trigger warnings before reading! it was much heavier than i expected and explored some topics that can easily be triggering for some people.

the topic of has always been very interesting to me - i really love love and all that’s connected to it. but as i’m just a teenager, right now it’s probably a lot about the idea of love, not the love itself. conversations on love taught me a lot. i tend to find myself reading books that are too mature for my inexperienced in life self, but this one felt good and appropriate - even though i’m probably not the main target. i already recommended it to my mom and i recommend it to you!!! and your mom probably too.

ps. in the first chapter every other sentence had me shocked because, even though i’m sixteen, me and natasha lunn are the same person. she is me and i am her.

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lucykateburns's review

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hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Humbling.

A big takeaway for me was: Being self-aware enough to recognise your flaws and vulnerabilities is a way of showing those around you that you love them. Loving and being loved requires vulnerability and faith in the unknown. Control is the enemy of love.

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whichdirection's review against another edition

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slow-paced

1.5

Less conversations and more interviews summarized around points that are never quite fully fleshed out. Lunn is strongest, I think, on her own. Outside the interviews, the beginning and ends of the chapters were rather good.
Nothing groundbreaking here, but sometimes it’s good to see you aren’t the only one who’s felt that way. Sometimes you need to see it written to accept it as truth.

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manuelac's review

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emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

Acabar este libro me hizo pensar en esa escena del cura de Fleabag, "love isn't something that weak people do". Habla de las capas que tiene el amor y como se encuentra en lugares donde no creemos que está pero, al final, está. Incluso en la perdida y en el duelo.

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samanthajore's review against another edition

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4.0

a lot of this book was overshadowed by the authors grief over not having a child which is something that i couldn’t relate to but i still think this book is something that everyone should read in their 20’s or 30’s or even older. Understanding love is an important part of having it.

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