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Finally I‘ve read this very important book. So much sorrow from each tale, each personal tragedy. From the inability of humanity to learn and get better. Almost 40 years passed and we are no better off.

#Disaster ☢️ #BookBinge 📚❤️📚

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Ugh. Devestating and infuriating. A book of collected stories from those affected by the meltdown. Citizens, soldiers, scientists, and volunteers. Took me all month to read it. It was good.. just heavy. All the triggers btw..

I completed the #Booked2022 Challenge! HUZZAH!! I likely wouldn't have found Voices or The Prettiest Star without these prompts, so thank you! They were some of the better books I read this year. Now on to 2023.

❄2 In a Dark, Dark Wood #TitleRepeatsItself

🌸8 Voices From Chernobyl #WrittenByAJournalist

☀13 Butterflies in November #IncludesARecipe

🍁19 Madam #DarkAcademiaNovel
🍁24 The Prettiest Star #MCHasAIDS

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This book has taken me longer to read than expected because I only wanted to read short sections at a time, but it is well worth the time. It‘s written in a way that continuously reminds you these are stories of individual people and retains a true oral history feel. It‘s both infuriating and heartbreaking. I‘ve read a few books about Chernobyl, but it‘s absolutely the one that feels the most personal.

#nonfiction #DeweyOct #Readathon

The temperature is dropping this week, so I cooked up a pot of chili yesterday afternoon. I feel like it‘s been a bit since I enjoyed a a book with my evening meal, so right now I‘m making a little time for a bowl of chili and a few more pages.

#ReadAndEat

I haven‘t had much reading time lately with a few weekend trips to visit family, plenty of school work, and the new puppy, but when she curled up in my lap for a nap this evening I decided I needed a few pages with my cup of tea. This book is a slow read for me because I only want to read a few pages at a time, but it‘s so worth reading.

#nonfiction #DogsOfLitsy

I‘ve had this book on my TBR for quite a while and finally borrowed a physical copy. I started it at school, but I think this is one I‘m going to have to read at home. It‘s too sad in some places and the constantly changing narrators require more focus than while reading and supervising students. The personal stories make everything you‘ve read or heard about Chernobyl so much more real.

#Nonfiction

#BookMoods Day 26: #MadeYouCry kind of narratives. Thoroughly heartbreaking.

#BookMoods Day 23: There is #Silence in between the spaces/pages of this deeply affecting nonfiction account of what happened in Chernobyl.

#MayMoms Day 31: One can be #Imprisoned in memories of what transpired in Chernobyl.

I agree with @vivastory that there are some quotes from this oral history of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath that I will never forget. I connected much more with her interviewees than I did with Midnight in Chernobyl. Aleksievich spoke to families who fled or were resettled, soldiers that were deployed there and their wives, and even the children being raised in its wake. Deeply moving. Thank you, Scott. 5⭐️ #NYWD22

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As a Nuclear Medicine Technologist I find this book both horrific and fascinating ☢️

#BeginsWith 🥳📚 #Voice 🎤 #Chernobyl ☢️

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

I think everything by Alexievich is essential reading!

Highlights from my reading in March are now on my blog: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-2021-reading-round-up.html?

Nobel prizewinning journalist Svetlana Alexievich has curated a profoundly moving chorus of voices, of people talking about their experiences after the nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl in 1986. It portrays a particular time in post-Soviet history, a time not only of political & social change, but also of shifting inner landscapes, of how people viewed themselves. #Translation by Keith Gessen. Heartbreaking, humane & utterly compelling.

Oh wow - two parcels came today @Come-read-with-me - thank you so so much. I feel so bad that you did this. But also so happy to get two wonderful titles. I‘m mega grateful and will enjoy them both. In the next week or two you should have a little parcel arriving too. ♥️

There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. “Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!” Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. “Don‘t worry!” she says. “They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.”

We take the salami, we take an egg—we make a roentgen image—this isn‘t food, it‘s a radioactive byproduct.

When people saw that the milk was from Rogachev, and stopped buying it, there suddenly appeared cans of milk without labels. I don‘t think it was because they ran out of paper.

“You find yourself wondering just what this is: the past or the future”.

I have quite a lot of non-fiction books. I read one per month. Now with only two more months of 2020 left (thankfully) which two should I read? #nonfiction

“You‘re a normal person. And then one day you‘re suddenly turned into a Chernobyl person. Into an animal, something that everyone‘s interested in, and that no one knows anything about.”

What can I say? The voices of Chernobyl are heartbreaking. People who still live there, people who lost all, cynical voices and hopeful ones. Googling about this nuclear nightmare makes my stomach turn 💔. What a world we live in. 😥

#ReadingEurope2020 🇺🇦

#WeeklyForecast 39/20

My forecast looks ambitious but I‘m almost finished with The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Afterwards I can finally start Revenge.
Also I have Alexievich lined up for #Ukraine in #ReadingEurope2020. I read she‘s missing in Belarus at the moment, she is active in the opposition. What‘s happening over there now feels like Soviet times all over again 😫😔
Last but not least will be The Murderess, recommended by @batsy 💕

After reading this (in Pandemic, USA), I am confident America would have treated a Chernobyl-like-incident very similar to the Soviets.

I‘ve always been curious about Chernobyl, especially how the community was affected in the aftermath. I‘m fascinated by abandoned places; how did it happen and where are the people now? This is a heart wrenching book about the people, animals, and nature impacted by Chernobyl. Very tough read as the author provides a voice for the victims. #MountTBR

I loved HBO‘s Chernobyl and it‘s hitting me different during Covid.

An oral history from those directly impacted by the Chernobyl disaster, this slim volume was a slow read for me due to its heavy emotional burden. It‘s so vital that Alexievich has recorded these narratives. They are harrowing and should not be lost or forgotten.

#ReadingEurope2020 #Ukraine

Absolutely heartbreaking accounts of the individuals who witnessed first hand the Chernobyl disaster. If you haven‘t watched the HBO series ‘Chernobyl‘, which was based on this book, I definitely recommend you do. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ReadingEurope2020 #Ukraine #LitsyAtoZ #abecedarianTBR #V @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @BookishMarginalia

Svetlana Alexievich is a Nobel Prize winning writer who uses interviews and testimony to chart Russia‘s emotional history by reference to critical events. Written in 1997 and revised in 2013, this intensely moving book (translated by Ana Gunin and Arch Tait) returns Alexievich to her native Belarus to collect testimony from those affected by the Chernobyl disaster (both the immediate and long-term aftermath) as they struggle to make sense of it.

Wow, this was eye-opening, raw, powerful and heart breaking. I had to read this in bits and pieces, some was hard to get through. I‘m glad I read it, I learned a lot about this slice of time in our collective environmental history and the particular history of Belarus and Ukraine. #ReadingEurope2020 #belarus #ukraine

Voices From Chernobyl is a non-fiction narrative written by Svetlana Aleksievich, who was a journalist at the time of the Chernobyl incident and the author interviewed many witnesses' of the tragedy. The narrative shows the tragedy from multiple witnesses' points of view, and their stories show the still remaining effects of the disaster; from radiation illness, and fear to sadness and rage. If you like history and science, you'll love this book!

I started this book about a week ago. It‘s an amazing read as far as stepping back in time during a terrifying experience and hearing from those who lived the nightmare. Had to put it down a few times as it was just so heartbreaking. But their voices deserve to be heard and their stories told. I highly recommend this non-fiction read.

I‘ll be honest: I‘ll be haunted for years to come by this raw oral history of this terrible event. The depth of these people‘s suffering, the horrible consequences of what they went through, the love, the recriminations, the pain. I cried so many times. Their raw and unflinching testimonials are painful in their sincerity. By interviewing them, Ms. Alexievich manages to never fall into trivial thus giving voice to those that needed one the most.

“Chernobyl-we won‘t have another world now. At first, it tore the ground from under our feet, and it flung pain at us for real… There‘s nowhere to turn to. People returning from the war were called a ‘lost‘ generation. We‘re also lost. The only thing that hasn‘t changed is human suffering. It‘s our only capital. It‘s invaluable!”

After recently watching the excellent HBO series on the Chernobyl disaster, I am looking forward to this read.

It's hard to make me cry - this book did. It's unbelievable what those people had to go through and might still do. It's like they're talking directly at you and this just broke my heart.

Chernobyl shall not be forgotten!

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More good news for 2020

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/01/14/belarussian-writer-alexievich-starts-a...

A powerful, sad and often difficult read. An oral history account from those who lived and are continuing to live through this disaster. Full review here: https://thecuriousmagpie2018.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/review-chernobyl-prayer-by...

#likeaprayer #movember
Have a couple of Chernobyl books on my kindle that I haven‘t got to yet!

@Alisnazzy has been incredibly busy, received a nice promotion, and is in the process of transitioning to her new job. She doesn‘t have time to post, but those of you who are her friends know that she will always find time to read. She took her book along and joined her brother, her dad and me for UCF football. But this is her version of pregame 😂