Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

12 reviews

will_meringue's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring

5.0

For all the dial-painters
And those who loved them

Before reading, I knew only the most basic things about the dial-painters: they glowed; they died. This book did what narrative non-fiction does best, opening up a topic I'd not really considered and making it speak across the past, present and future. It's a harrowing read - the descriptions of their deaths are brutally visceral, and I cried multiple times - but always clear-eyed, informative, emotional and empathetic. The cruelty shown by URSC, Radium Dial and other forces in the industry would be unthinkable if it wasn't all too common under capitalism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Body horror, Miscarriage, Blood, Cancer, Murder, and Medical trauma

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Ableism, Medical content, Terminal illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, and Death

infinite_harness9030's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexism, Blood, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Murder

alexismong720's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Infertility, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Murder

ashley_briana26's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is a respectful telling of the lives of the Radium Girls. I came into this knowing nothing about them except that they existed and I closed this book only two days later and I have a much better understanding of the situation and the girls. This takes them from a vague concept of workplace safety and transforms them into real women that lived, worked, suffered, and died. The respect the author has for these victims is evident in her writing. This is not a bland statement of facts but a real story that’s being told that makes it easy to read. I highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Murder, Death, Grief, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Infertility, War, Abortion, and Death of parent

jasperkelley2015's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

A book that is out of my usual comfort zone of reading. But I'm glad I stuck with it and finished this book. It is LONG but super well written. The women the book is centered around were fantastic choices. By the end, I felt like they were someone I could hung out with. It is a very difficult book to get through, and hearing these stories is not easy. But they are stories that need to be told!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Murder, and Terminal illness

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

tklear's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Great compilation of all the research executed in a tale that unfolds our sketchy capitalistic past. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Suicide, Murder, Infertility, Medical trauma, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is important
I didnt like a lot of the writing but i think a lot more people need to know about this and i respect her for writing it
Its often infuriating and hard to read and so fucking sad but this narrative needs to be told. The way that women and workers are constantly and consistently ignored for company gain does make you start to lose all hope in humanity thought.
That the worst possible scenario was barely listened to (and arguably not listened to) leaves little room for hope

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Murder, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Grief

meganpbennett's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A story that has been swept under the rug time and time again (the author has a post-script from the*1970s*, decades after the court case), of how corporations are putting profits ahead of their employees. As the book makes very clear, the company *knew* what radium could do, and yet still instructed the dial painters to lip point their brushes. It's a horrifying, essential read about the oversight of corporations in America. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Cancer, Blood, Death, and Gore