It's often nice to just listen to people discuss some topics. This wasn't much of a book, but a recording of a conversation that took place a while back.

I've vaguely heard mention of the Radium Girls over the years. Not much, just that they existed, they glowed because of the Radium, and that it killed them. I knew they were crucial to bring certain workplace safety measures in place, but didn't really know how.

While reading this book, I was appalled by the way the companies handled things. Like, yeah, you know the business/corporation is out for itself, but you think the humans involved would at least be sympathetic or kind. Nope.

And we hope something like this wouldn't happen in this day and age, but maybe it would. It's kind of terrifying.

The stories are great, the voice acting is great, the sound effects are going to make me throw up.

Can we stop with the talking while eating, for starters? It's disgusting. I get that audiobooks (especially the full cast ones) are going to have sound effects, but it is necessary for them to be so disgusting and so loud? The music, too? There were several points where I couldn't make out what was being said because the music or the sound effects were too loud over the actual story.

This book was wild!

I'm normally not interested when authors try to insert bits about their private lives into nonfiction books that aren't biographies, but this one took me for a loop. I felt like I was watching a documentary, but the feed kept getting hijacked by a reality show.

First was the "would one day be my wife" comment, which got a hard eye-roll because what has that to do with the DNA!? Then was the "dating a girl was different than all my previous boyfriends" bit and being bisexual in Germany, and I was like "wait a minute! boyfriends? I'm here for boyfriends - tell me more!" Then he dropped in the bit about masturbating for science; I mean, he says they produced semen samples - I extrapolated from there.

I always enjoy a fantastical story about Sherlock Holmes. There's just something about him chilling within the world of the Elder Gods that intrigues me.

These stories have been so much fun. There is enough of the horror of Lovecraft to make it interesting, but not enough to give me nightmares. And all of the joys of Sherlock, without being too fantastical. This series was worth the time.

This was a delightful book. Sagan's writing is both educational and poetic - absolutely fantastic.