Utopia

[close] A book club based in Central Mississippi that orbits around works in the Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Alternative History genres.

[close] I feel there is the need for a forum where we can discuss literature. Not just rate books and say how much we like them, but anything to do with literature, great authors, periods, social context, styles, influences, movements. If all the words tumbled from a famous tome, And could be carefully reassembled in the fullness of time, Who would be the best person to be sure, If the new work in hand was literature? (By Goodreads Author Amelia Stark) A united minority is stronger than a divided majority. (Quotation by Goodreads Author Adriano Bulla)

[close] The land of utopia is the last hope on earth. But to an outsider it is more of a dystopia. Members are forced to oppressed and can not express there true feelings. Kindness is frowned and love is forbidden. When you turn 12 you are tested too recieve your career path. There are rebels who live on the outside. But unlike Utopia they are poisoned by radiation, the leftovers of World War 3.

[close] 'Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. With her "documentary novels", Svetlana Alexievich, who is a journalist, moves in the boundary between reporting and fiction. Her major works are her grand cycle Voices of Utopia, which consists of five parts. Svetlana Alexievich's books criticize political regimes in both the Soviet Union and later Belarus. In 2015 Ms Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.' (From the data on her Goodreads Author page) Since I found no existing group I decided to create one because I think her books are the best I have ever read. They are bigger than life. I hope to find fellow fans who agree with me. Share what you like as long as it's on topic. Сардэчна запрашаем!