Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

23 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

cristinareading's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

It took me a long time to finish this book but it was really good. Its a great overall exploration of love in all its forms and the progression of love: finding it, keeping it alive, and losing it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Infertility, and Miscarriage

Minor: Addiction

marta_fiona's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book gives a broad insight into human connection and the variety of love. I liked the many voices that spoke in agreement but also shed light on aspects that might seem contradictory but make up the complex nature of love. At times, some passages felt rather trivial (which can be hard to avoid when talking about life lessons), but especially the second and third part of the book spoke to me. This read definitely made me more susceptible to/aware of the love around (an important reminder every now and then).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Child death

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

shedasortareads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

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

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

lalalaluziie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, and Terminal illness

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

lenkusia's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Death

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

samanthajore's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Miscarriage