Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn

8 reviews

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Death

taytertoteroo's review

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 against another edition

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

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

ellecarman's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Child death, Death of parent, and Car accident