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Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

11 reviews

baileyanabella's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

Simply stunning; I am moved. Natasha Lunn is truly a writer to be admired. I feel her writing in my soul. I feel understood witnessing her words. I learned in this book, that that in and of itself is a type of love connection. Love is boundless, and so beautiful, and so painful, and this book truly captures every facet of all that experiencing love can do to us. Never is any one experience the same, but we are unified by them nonetheless. I think this is a book everyone can learn from, and should be on some required reading lists. There's the added bonus that if you enjoy a particular interview, that person likely has their own book and/or other medium that delves further into their worlds. Incredible!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Child death, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide

srgreen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cancer, Blood, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Pregnancy

bloodmaarked's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

adding this book to my personal library with a quickness!

✧ full review on my tumblr ✧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Child death, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, and Infidelity

readingwithkt's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Cancer, Miscarriage, Animal death, Death, Grief, and Child death

mads_jpg's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

I can tell this is one of those books I'll return to throughout my life. But not for the reasons I expected. I thought it would be the book's perspectives on romantic relationships that I'd need the most, and while they were definitely powerful, it was actually the book's focus on grief, the cost of love, that impacted me the most. I know I'll need this when a loved one passes, or a friendship ends, or even when my life is ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Infertility

Moderate: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death and Blood

verorikky's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Death

taytertoteroo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Child death, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Infertility

_sarahandthesun's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

3.0

I listened to the audiobook which I didn’t think did the book justice. The format seemed like it had gone from a conversation, to being transcribed for the book, back to a conversation as a re-recording  for the audiobook and it just felt a bit robotic. The parts where it was interview style came across really unnatural and forced. Made to sound like a natural conversation that clearly wasn’t. 

The overall writing of the book was beautiful. Very sad. Not for me at this time and I’d warn others to check the triggers. I’m not someone who feels I need to check for trigger warnings but chapters of this book felt extremely depressing to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Child death, Death, and Cancer

martapsalvado's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

*always reads fiction about love*
*reads non-fiction for once*
the non-fiction:


Jokes aside, this book is everything. So much sensibility, empathy and wisdom. One of my new favorite books for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, and Infertility

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Suicide

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

for me, this book is not one to read in one sitting. it’s a series of interviews ruminating on what love is, means, and how it has shifted in aftermath of the interviewees’ lives. i think the structure as well as the questions asked can get a bit repetitive, hence why i don’t recommend reading this in one sitting.

but i had highlighted so many good quotes that gave me food for thought. all sections were pretty strong, but it was the last part regarding loss that really struck a chord with me and made me emotional.

i enjoyed the author’s input but i felt her transitions between interviews with her thoughts were a bit short. i think she’s a great writer and i wish we got more insight from her inbetween about the interviews and how it affected her! i do appreciate how diverse her interviewees were though. i read this on e-book but i may purchase a physical copy to revisit the quotes that really stood out to me :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, Medical content, Infertility, Child death, Chronic illness, Cancer, Death, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma