Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

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

108 reviews

kransom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

achiunicorn's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

rachelmfisher's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a very difficult listen but absolutely superb. Thoroughly researched,  the book doesn't just give you facts but really brings these girls and their stories to life. If I had to give it one word it would be haunting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

scholastic_squid's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Infertility, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Cancer

diannaphantomfiction's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

My only issue with this book was the length. While I understand telling the full story, at times the chapters seemed to drag. 

Otherwise, it has been a long time since I read a story that made me feel all the emotions possible, from disgust to hope. This was an absolutely wonderful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Ableism, Death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Body horror, and Cancer

Moderate: Infertility, Body horror, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Domestic abuse

This is all true, so it will feel fairly heavy at times, but all of this present, sometimes in graphic detail

ashley_briana26's review

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

notapenguin's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Miscarriage

ids100's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

4.25

The story itself is compelling, but its journalistic writing style is not to my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Body horror, and Death

thiscryptidreads's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

A somber and detailed look into the history of industry, medicine and the lives touched by the glowing element radium. 
The Girls working in Radium factories, the "shining girls" glowing with what they thought to be simply a fantastical paint, peddled to the rich as a health tonic and beauty aid. They all took jobs to help their families in what seemed a safe factory setting painting watches, a coveted job for many. The beginning of their stories seems so hopeful and full of promise, it was truly heartbreaking listening as they had so many dreams and their lives taken from them from something they deemed do harmless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Gaslighting

greenlivingaudioworm's review

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