Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Czarnobylska modlitwa. Kronika przyszłości by Svetlana Alexiévich

7 reviews

sinistralcalluna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Excellent but emotionally difficult. I couldn’t put it down and I’m so glad I read it. 

However, be aware that it contains first person accounts of death from radiation poisoning, and the effects of radiation on infants and children.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

leahfoko's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This book was fascinating to read, but also very sad. It was really interesting to hear the stories of people in and around Chernobyl and what they and their families experienced. It was often heartbreaking and really challenging to read certain parts so it is important to be aware of how some of the gruesome parts and the grief and loss that many people felt could be triggering for some. I think the author did a good job of including people’s stories as they wanted them to be told and being respectful of their stories and experiences. If you’re interested in what happened at Chernobyl, and if you enjoyed the show Chernobyl on HBO then I recommend this book. (I read it in large part because Craig Mazin said it informed a lot of his choices on the show and recommended people read it.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cursing, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

mmorenagomes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Couldn’t handle the whole situation, couldn’t read a single story without crying. Even tough I have read Svetlana’s books about war, this one hits different, it changed my perspective of the accident, it made Tchernobyl real. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Infertility, and Violence

byrdies's review against another edition

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

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