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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

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bookwyrmknits's review against another edition

This book has a lot of important and interesting information in it, and is a part of our history that isn't generally taught in schools. (Or at least, wasn't when and where I went to school.) However, it's pretty repetitive and rather graphic with descriptions of the radiation damage, and I'm not interested in continuing.

I also have to be honest and say that part of the reason for the DNF is the narration. For the most part I didn't have any issues with the narration. However, as the tension ramped up in the second third of the book, the narrator started to lengthen some of the vowels and deepen her voice at the end of sentences. It feels like this was done for dramatic impact but all it did was annoy me.

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4.5

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5.0

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3.0

Great prose. Personally wish it went into more detail about legal and court proceedings but what was included was very good.

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5.0

Should be required reading

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5.0

Really enjoyed the human element of the radium girls

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5.0

The Radium Girls follows the absolutely unbelievable story of the girls who were poisoned by the companies they worked for and their fight for justice.
This book is an absolutely heartbreaking and inspiring story about a group of women's fight to try to hold companies accountable for the poisoning that they suffered due to the companies lying to them about the harmful effects of radium. This book was an absolutely heartbreaking and wild ride to read.
Watching these women having to not only suffer to find a diagnosis and be misdiagnosed was already heartbreaking. But also watching them having to fight tooth and nail to just be able to get any sort of compensation and help from the companies was absolutely rage inducing. The way these companies lied about these women and their conditions and what they were suffering while they were sitting there, in pain and dying, was absolutely mind blowing.
This book is such an important book to read because it's not just about the women's pain. It's about their resilience and how they worked together despite the odds to try to do right by others who would suffer like them.
I think this is a very important book to read and it should be read by everyone. The way Kate Moore handled this was so deft and well done. She showed so much respect and care for these women and their stories. I teared up in her descriptions and she showed their courage so well. I cannot recommend this book enough.

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