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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

The Compound

by Aisling Rawle

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Conversations on Love

by Natasha Lunn

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Laura said: " I didn’t expect this book to affect me so deeply—but page after page, I found myself underlining sentences like they were giving a context to some emotions that I really didn't know existed or that other people felt them, too.

Conversations on Love i I didn’t expect this book to affect me so deeply—but page after page, I found myself underlining sentences like they were giving a context to some emotions that I really didn't know existed or that other people felt them, too.

Conversations on Love is not a love story, it’s many. In this collection of interviews and essays, the author explores the different ways we love: romantic love, familial love, friendship, heartbreak, grief, and the often overlooked art of loving ourselves. It’s thoughtful, tender, and full of moments that made me pause and reflect.

The writing is soooo intimate, almost like you're reading someone’s journal. Natasha Lunn doesn’t try to tie things up neatly, which I appreciated. Love isn’t simple, and this book honors that complexity.

Personal Reflection:
I read this while dealing with the starts of my first relationship, a moment I used to dream about and overthing about the time it would come. But the reality of being in love, of letting someone into your life and your heart for real, is so much more layered than I ever expected. Reading Conversations on Love while navigating this experience felt grounding. Like having a friend quietly remind me that it’s okay not to know how to deal with every situation that could come up.

So much of what this book explores like the fear of vulnerability, the awkwardness of early connection, the beauty of choosing someone again and again even when things feel uncertain... reflected what I was feeling. When you’ve never loved someone romantically before, everything feels like new territory: the tenderness, the doubts, the joy, the ache of missing someone, the intensity of always wanting to be with the other person. This book helped me feel less overwhelmed by that newness. It reminded me that love doesn’t have to be perfect to be real or worth it.

There’s this part where someone talks about how love isn’t about always knowing the right thing to say or do, but about showing up, especially when it’s hard. That really stayed with me. Because even though we’re still figuring out how to love each other, how to communicate better, how to handle distance... what matters is that we’re trying and we are being there for each other when there are doubts or insecurities.

Conversations on Love taught me that love is a practice. A choice. A commitment. And for someone who’s only just learning what it means to be chosen and to choose, that lesson meant everything.

Some books entertain you. Others explain you to yourself. This one did both. ...more "

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Laura’s Quotes

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: alec-lightwood, city-of-ashes, clean, dirt, humor, isabelle-lightwood, sarcasm

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“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
― Susan Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

tags: science-fiction

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“Pull your shirt up over your mouth,” he told Wylan.
“What?”
“Stop being dense. You’re cuter when you’re smart.”
Wylan’s cheeks went pink. He scowled and pulled his collar up.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: jesper-fahey, six-of-crows, wylan-van-eck

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“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

tags: rayuela

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“Le escribió entonces una carta febril de veinte pliegos en la que soltó sin pudor las verdades amargas que llevaba podridas en el corazón desde su noche funesta. Le habló de las lacras eternas que él había dejado en su cuerpo, de la sal de su lengua, de la trilla de fuego de su verga africana.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cronaca di una morte annunciata

tags: angela-vicario, anunciada, carta, crónica, muerte

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