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A review by writtenontheflyleaves
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
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Swipe for outtakes feat. a very needy dog 🦮
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💘 The concept: For her popular newsletter Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn has interviewed many people about love and what it means to them. Collected here with her own reflections to guide and bridge them, these interviews explore love in many forms: love for a friend or for a partner, for a sibling or a parent, love through illness and grief and death, love across time. She speaks to writers and therapists and actors, and challenges her readers to expand the way they think about love and its place in our lives.
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I took my time reading this because I really wanted to savour this book. I already have a mental list of friends I want to lend it to and times when I will return to it throughout my life, and there were moments in here that resonated with me deeply. It was also a perfect case of the right book at the right time - at the weekend Charlie and I reunited for the first time in person with friends I haven’t seen since last summer, and Lunn’s constant directive to pay attention to the moments we have with people we love was in my mind the whole time.
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Honestly this book just felt like a warm hug. Or maybe the impulse to hug someone - when they’re saying something or smiling a certain way and you just think, ugh, I love you so much. If you’re anything like me it’ll prompt you to think in new ways about your relationships and what you want from your life - mid 20s gang I feel like there’s a lot for us to think about here!!!
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💞 Read it when it’s out on 15th July if you loved Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, and if you want an easy but impactful read.
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🚫 Avoid it if you’re avoiding discussions of miscarriage/ trying to conceive, as that is quite a central thread. Also if you find Q&A formats difficult to read a lot of.
🌟🌟🌟🌟✨
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Swipe for outtakes feat. a very needy dog 🦮
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💘 The concept: For her popular newsletter Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn has interviewed many people about love and what it means to them. Collected here with her own reflections to guide and bridge them, these interviews explore love in many forms: love for a friend or for a partner, for a sibling or a parent, love through illness and grief and death, love across time. She speaks to writers and therapists and actors, and challenges her readers to expand the way they think about love and its place in our lives.
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I took my time reading this because I really wanted to savour this book. I already have a mental list of friends I want to lend it to and times when I will return to it throughout my life, and there were moments in here that resonated with me deeply. It was also a perfect case of the right book at the right time - at the weekend Charlie and I reunited for the first time in person with friends I haven’t seen since last summer, and Lunn’s constant directive to pay attention to the moments we have with people we love was in my mind the whole time.
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Honestly this book just felt like a warm hug. Or maybe the impulse to hug someone - when they’re saying something or smiling a certain way and you just think, ugh, I love you so much. If you’re anything like me it’ll prompt you to think in new ways about your relationships and what you want from your life - mid 20s gang I feel like there’s a lot for us to think about here!!!
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💞 Read it when it’s out on 15th July if you loved Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, and if you want an easy but impactful read.
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🚫 Avoid it if you’re avoiding discussions of miscarriage/ trying to conceive, as that is quite a central thread. Also if you find Q&A formats difficult to read a lot of.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Death