Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

20 reviews

sophie42's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

stacy_es's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

That book was really challenging for me. It portrays mainly the points of view of Belorussians and the impact of the catastrophe on that country, the Ukraine itself, the place of the scene, was rarely mentioned. Some of the interviewees believed that Ukrainians asked for and got all the support while Belorussians did not …
The form of the interviews and monologues was really nice, it appealed to emotions rather than facts. Some of the speeches were so painful and scary, especially the paragraph with the kids interviews. 
But there were so many inexplicable things that were infuriating me. Ignorance, silent obedience, hiding of the facts altogether with saying about heroic deeds of liquidators. But so many of these actions were pointless while the deaths of these people were simply dreadful, they could only dream of just death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Child death

nataalia_sanchez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Child death

samhackett's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide

byrdies's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was emotionally devastating to read. It took the tragedy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which is most often discussed as an example of the consequences of Soviet self aggrandizement, and placed it at the feet of the survivors. It placed it within the homes and minds of regular, normal, every day people. It forced the reader to confront the fact that yes, the world goes on, but that doesn't mean it wasn't irrevocably changed. At least for the people who lived through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Chronic illness, Infertility, Pregnancy, Gore, and Miscarriage

rita250's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

Extremely moving. Very upsetting but something I think is worth reckoning with. There are a huge number of contributing voices that offer what feels like every imaginable perspective. It feels intensely honest and raw, and often deeply profound. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, and Alcohol

myrdschaem's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

violade's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Suicide, Body horror, and Grief

Minor: Child death and Chronic illness

valenblr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cancer

Minor: Suicide

bettinablocksberg's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Infertility, Grief, Chronic illness, Child death, Cancer, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit