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I enjoyed reading this book but I am struggling with my review. The subject matter is incredibly important. What these girls went through is horrific and the impact they ultimately had on worker safety was extraordinary. However, I felt that the narrative wasn't written in a compelling manner. Moore says at the end that she wanted to bring the stories of these girls to light, who they were and what they were like. I felt like she did only an ok job with meeting that objective.
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This is such a compelling, tragic story! It’s the true experiences of young women who worked painting watches with radium-laced paint, so the numbers would glow. Partially due to ignorance and partly due to a cover-up by the companies, these girls were exposed to large amounts of radium, especially due to the practice of lip-pointing the brush. It took years for the effects to start showing up, sometimes within a few and sometimes after decades. The radium went straight into the bones and teeth,
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AUTHOR Moore, Kate
TITLE The Radium Girls
DATE READ 09/24/2019
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE I Katherine Schaub had a jaunty spring in her step as she walked the brief four block to work. It was February 1, 1917, bu the cold didn't bother her one bit; she had always loved the winter snows of her hometown.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Non-Fiction/2016/ Sourcebooks/ 408 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 148/111; US States & DC -- NJ -- 31/51
GROUP READ BeeKeepers
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TITLE The Radium Girls
DATE READ 09/24/2019
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE I Katherine Schaub had a jaunty spring in her step as she walked the brief four block to work. It was February 1, 1917, bu the cold didn't bother her one bit; she had always loved the winter snows of her hometown.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Non-Fiction/2016/ Sourcebooks/ 408 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 148/111; US States & DC -- NJ -- 31/51
GROUP READ BeeKeepers
TIME/P ...more
I never give one-star reviews because I simply don't finish those books but this one I finished for the Radium women and the lone star is for their story.
It was torturous to read and I shouldn't complain because the women had it worse but they don't deserve their story to be terribly told.
This was a data dump which seemed to be written by a different person per part. The last straw was remarking that it was "rather dismal" that the victims were called "Suicide Club" then the narrator, a century ...more
It was torturous to read and I shouldn't complain because the women had it worse but they don't deserve their story to be terribly told.
This was a data dump which seemed to be written by a different person per part. The last straw was remarking that it was "rather dismal" that the victims were called "Suicide Club" then the narrator, a century ...more
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