Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

108 reviews

charlottejones952's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

mald626's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Infertility, Grief, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Domestic abuse

carriehaley89's review

dark informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: War

cricci's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

An intimate account is of the radium girls’ story from working at the factories, through their illness, to the last impact they had on our current workplace safety culture and relevant laws. I was horrified at the lengths the companies went to in order to avoid being held accountable as well as the tortured these women endured, but at the same time, I’ve been inspired by their strength of spirit. In this way, we remember the radium girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Minor: Domestic abuse

kittygrh1127's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

I read this at a super smash brothers tournament and only didn't cry buckets of tears because I was in public. unbelievably sad, tragic, and infuriating.  has some truly disturbing and gross descriptions. like I get why they're there but my Christ some of them were rough to get through!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death

gondorgirl's review

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

aly_anne's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

This was a tough book to read, but so very informative. These women in Ottawa, IL and in Orange, NJ paved the way for the protections we have today (re: workplace hazards and compensation), and we it is incumbent on us to remember them and their families sacrifices and hardships. Highly recommend for anyone interested in women’s history, industrial history, and the impact of capitalism on worker’s health and safety. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Cancer, and Infertility

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

o_watson's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Cancer, Child death, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

miistical's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

For too long the women had waited for the truth. The scales, at last, were tipping against the company. The girls had been given a death sentence; yet they had also been given the tools to fight their cause—to fight for justice.

The diagnosis, Katherine Schaub now said, "gave me hope."

"The Radium Girls" is one of the most captivating novels (nonfiction and fiction) that I have ever read. While the first third - Knowledge - dragged on a bit, I devoured the next 300 pages in a 6 hour single sitting. Vindication and righteousness boiled in my blood; it was like a predator was searching for prey, hoping that the next page would spell out a slip for me to latch onto with my teeth.

I am not normally a fan of nonfiction, but Kate Moore's sympathetic and detailed language was perfect for envisioning each tragedy and justice the Radium Girls went through. On occasion, it did seem a bit too detailed—there are many descriptions of the face, body type, and personality of every person mentioned. However, it dawned on me that these were very much real people, not just names with a D next to them. That clear visual of these women and those who helped them reminded me that these were people who deserved to be seen, not just as letters on a page.

By the end, it did truly feel as if I were there with these poor women. I watched the court proceedings, sat in Catherine Donahue's living room, roamed Ottawa and Orange and New York. I despaired and cheered and, quite literally!, cried with them. This book is a monument to injustice in all its forms, and I highly encourage everyone to read it so that they may truly know hopelessness—and to hope anyway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Blood, Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Infertility

earth_and_silver's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Chronic illness

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Physical abuse