Wow. This book gave a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Chernobyl disaster, its impacts, causes, and the events that unfolded after. I highly recommend; however, I did have a hard time at points because it is quite heartbreaking.
Wow. This book gave a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Chernobyl disaster, its impacts, causes, and the events that unfolded after. I highly recommend; however, I did have a hard time at points because it is quite heartbreaking.
Non-fiction #doublespin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
3rd book #nonfictionnovember @Clwojick @rsteve388
#ukraine #readingeurope2020 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
4 1/2 ⭐ A bit too scientific for me, and it's hard to keep track of the names/different government departments.
#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen
Completed Thicker Than Water today
Finish Chernobyl
Continue Northanger & Confessions
Start Daughter of Smoke and Bone
#bookreport week 7/11/20 @Cinfhen
Completed Shadow State
Continued Northanger Abbey
Started other 2
Post 3 of 5.
This is what I have chosen for #bookspin and #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks - both cards in play!
This is an excellent historical account. The author strikes a nice balance of science and humanity. He also shows how the accident affected the world.
Yeah - set a target for 52 books - and I read 78 - 150%. Doubt i'll squeeze another in before the end of 2019.. Lots of 5 * books this year - tagged one definitely makes it into the top 5 reads fo the year.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/13135604
Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a specialist in Eastern Europe. In this by turns horrifying, moving and meticulously researched book (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2018 for non-fiction), he depicts the events surrounding the explosion of the No 4 reactor at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986 and the cover up and clear up that followed and explains how it contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
So I know I‘m not on here a lot anymore and I‘m sorry for that. Just an update on my life: yesterday I had to have all my bottom teeth removed due to a side effect of a med I took for a misdiagnosis of epilepsy. @Lynnsoprano has been amazing in taking care of me. So for now, I‘m cozy in bed with my books and LOTR. I‘m handling this better than I expected 💖
One of the best history books I have ever read! Devastating but utterly compelling with astonishing research and great historical context and just the right amount of personality to stop it being dry. This is going to stay with me a long time, it‘s a haunting read! 😔
A heartbreaking book about the disaster and how dangerous it is to put profit before humanity.
“Sacrificing themselves and others was the only way to bring the nuclear monster under control. The task came first. Counting people and lives was secondary” (page 218)
This podcast - just 5 episodes - is a really great companion to the series. Peter Segal and the shows creator talk history and creative licence. Highly recommend it!
Adding this #Nonfiction #historical account to my #TBR stack thanks to @Caroline2
This book is full of #loathsomeliars 🤬 #abcaugust. It‘s a brilliant book though and superbly researched.
Thank you so much @Lizpixie for recommending this book! I am LOVING it!! I highly recommend it for anyone wanting more detail and background history after watching the mini series. 👍🏻
This was both an absorbing read and a terrifying one. I was 15yrs old when Chernobyl happened & vividly remember the atmosphere of horror at the time, a feeling that I‘d say has stayed with everyone old enough to remember it. This was not only a highly detailed account but also a very readable one without that feeling of academia a lot of science heavy books have. Highly recommend 5⭐️ #NonFiction2019 #SomethingWithScience #Pop19 #MakesYouNostalgic
Anyone hazard a guess which HBO miniseries I just finished and am so intrigued to learn more about? 🤔🤔🤔 #GetThoseLibraryHoldsIn
Anybody else watch this?? It was great.
I actually left the house today! Yay!!! Sitting down with an iced coffee & a great book after finally having my eyes tested. $600 later I have a new pair of glasses on the way😱Also found out the nerve in my left eye is thinning & the ducts that lubricate my eye aren‘t working so my corneas are suffering. Which means eye drops 5 times a day & hot compresses at night. But at least I left the house🚗🏠Hows your day been?
#BookMail Pt1 Kicking off my new books of the last fortnight is one that I‘ve already been hooked into reading. After watching the mini series on the disaster, I was stoked to see it was based on this book & knew I had to get my hands on it. I was 15yrs old when Chernobyl happened & I vividly remember the panic & feeling of impending doom of that time, having grown up with the Cold War I had horrific nightmares about nuclear disasters.☢️🛢💣
My reading has slowed this month! Seems I read more / faster during the winter. Im obviously a ‘tucked up under a blanket in front of the fire‘ kind of reader!
A stellar reading month - a 5🌟non fiction that was so tense & made me so angry / sad. Two 4🌟novels, one that felt like a warm comfort blanket and one that gave me hope for the future. And one 3🌟read - that‘s had such great food descriptions that I was perpetually hungry whilst reading!
An excellent explanation of the events of the Chernobyl disaster, from the reactor‘s inception to the modern day. Very detailed and not too scientific for the less well-versed in nuclear power, like me! A must read for anyone who‘s watched and enjoyed the HBO series.
Listening to Alexa read this while I make badges for LGBTQ+ Pride Week at school next week. Alan is ‘helping‘, which involves trying to knock all of my things off the table. Pretty chill day compared to how the last couple of weeks have panned out! 🏳️🌈
I‘ve just watched the TV series about Chernobyl and found it really interesting, so I‘ve just downloaded the book. Looks like a good read so far!
Wow - this book was so well written. Plokhy leads us through the disaster, the politics the social & economic landscape, he gives us the ecological impact & the future scenarios we should be worried for. It's an amazingly book - I wish it were fiction, sadly it's not. It's simultaneously chilling, frustrating, immensely scarily and tremendously sad. A brilliant read, if that can said about something so tragic.
Monday night....👍🏼
I have a potentially tricky work day today with some difficult meetings and potentially fierce conversations. I‘m convinced though my train reading will help put the day into perspective!
Having just watched the HBO Miniseries - Chernobyl, I cant wait to get stuck into this book, to separate fact from fiction. The miniseries was excellent though and it brought to light so much I didn‘t know of something that I can remember happening when I was a kid. Horrifying.
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This book is so engrossing (once you get past the lead up to the disaster) that I bought the hardback and audiobook versions...and I never buy hardback. If you like history, and especially Soviet era history, this is a must read! #nonfiction #Soviet #Disaster
Although I'm still a proponent of nuclear power, even I had to take a moment to let this sink in. Less than 5%.
The cover-up, the lies, the generations ruined, it was all a tragedy, and continues to be so.
#Chernobyl #NonFiction
#nonfiction2019 : history A comprehensive look at the Chernobyl disaster - I felt shock, sadness, and anger at the government mishandling, ignorance, deceit, and lack of concern for the people. This book might feel too in-depth for some, and heavy on the politics, but in the epilogue Plokhy reminds us of how many nuclear plants are being built today all around the world and the risk for history to repeat itself. #scarystuff