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Radium Girls by Kate Moore is a phenomenal book. I don’t know how to really sum up my feelings in a way that will capture how awesome this book was because it truly did fill me with awe. If you stop reading this review right now I hope it's because you went to go read this book immediately.
Summary
The book follows the stories of dial painters of the United States Radium Corporation in Newark, New Jersey and the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa Illinois. It explores their work at the radium factories and their decent into radium poisoning and the legal battles they went through for corporate compensation from the factories they worked in.
Review
Radium girls is a book not for the faint of heart. Moore doesn’t hesitate to describe the agonizing suffering of radium poisoning and gets quite gruesome. But this book isn’t a 400-page tome of torture porn. The detail is extremely necessary for the reader to wrap their minds around the suffering these women went through and the level of negligence on the part of the companies
Moore works to make sure the readers remember that these women are people. She constantly brings a human element to the worlds on a page. I never felt disconnected from the fact that what I was reading on the page happened to people just like me which made me horrified and incredibly sympathetic.
I would call this book a non-fiction novel. Not because I feel it’s inaccurate but because Moore creates a narrative about these women making this book feel more like a story than facts about this event. This made the book very easy to digest for me as a non-fiction newbie.
Moore excellently creates a sense of dread within the reader every time we zoom into the radium in this book. Despite it being non-fiction Radium Girls is about a far from dry and dull as you can get. The tension and nervous anticipation created about the poisoning the audience all knows is going to happen is legitimately stressful. My roommate knows how much this book got to me because I would be screaming at parts of this book.
Radium Girls is a fantastic book. Please pick it up if you have any sort of interest in radium, workers rights or just reading good books because I don’t think you’ll regret it.
Summary
The book follows the stories of dial painters of the United States Radium Corporation in Newark, New Jersey and the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa Illinois. It explores their work at the radium factories and their decent into radium poisoning and the legal battles they went through for corporate compensation from the factories they worked in.
Review
Radium girls is a book not for the faint of heart. Moore doesn’t hesitate to describe the agonizing suffering of radium poisoning and gets quite gruesome. But this book isn’t a 400-page tome of torture porn. The detail is extremely necessary for the reader to wrap their minds around the suffering these women went through and the level of negligence on the part of the companies
Moore works to make sure the readers remember that these women are people. She constantly brings a human element to the worlds on a page. I never felt disconnected from the fact that what I was reading on the page happened to people just like me which made me horrified and incredibly sympathetic.
I would call this book a non-fiction novel. Not because I feel it’s inaccurate but because Moore creates a narrative about these women making this book feel more like a story than facts about this event. This made the book very easy to digest for me as a non-fiction newbie.
Moore excellently creates a sense of dread within the reader every time we zoom into the radium in this book. Despite it being non-fiction Radium Girls is about a far from dry and dull as you can get. The tension and nervous anticipation created about the poisoning the audience all knows is going to happen is legitimately stressful. My roommate knows how much this book got to me because I would be screaming at parts of this book.
Radium Girls is a fantastic book. Please pick it up if you have any sort of interest in radium, workers rights or just reading good books because I don’t think you’ll regret it.