Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

69 reviews

rachelhilary's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

dobermaier's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

Fantastic read - I really appreciate the focus and care for telling the women’s personal stories. Absolutely horrifying tho. It made ME squeamish at times and I’m a huge horror/body horror person. Learn your labor history, friends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Body horror

Minor: Misogyny and Infertility

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This was a reread because IDK this book has just been on my mind a lot lately? Idk why not it was just as good as I remember. I still can't believe--but also very much can believe--the absolute HELL  that these women went through all in the name of capitalism and all while the people who made them suffer so much did their damnedest to obfuscate and deny everything about it. And how the law was just absolutely against them for so much of the way just because this was a novel type of poisoning and it happened to women. The research on this book is so thorough, but the author also does a great job of letting you get to know these women, the lives they led, and their personalities. It makes it all that much more real and gutting to read their stories. Fuck capitalism. That's all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

tea_at_mole_end's review against another edition

dark inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Death, Sexism, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Infertility, Pregnancy, Child death, War, Classism, and Suicidal thoughts

0tter_a's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Infertility

anna456's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Gaslighting, Gore, Chronic illness, Grief, and Terminal illness

katsaysquack's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse and Grief

punk_flower_child's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Cancer, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: War, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

5.0

It's appalling what happened to these poor women. I felt the book could have been shorter & the narration a bit less monotone, but I still enjoyed the book. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion and Domestic abuse

Some of the pictures in the book are a bit gruesome.