Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

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

127 reviews

galacticmist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Death, and Body horror

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

This story follows the lives, careers, court battles, and deaths of "the Radium Girls," women who used radium to paint watches, clocks, and equipment starting just before World War I, and moving into World War II. Constantly lied to about the dangers of radium by the companies they worked for, countless women were poisoned by the radioactive material. A tragic tale of young women fighting for answers and justice, this book focuses on the women themselves, not just their battles in court, but the personal hardships so many of them had to endure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexism, Terminal illness, Death, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Pregnancy, Infertility, War, and Miscarriage

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

sehenry20's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

0tter_a's review

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

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

aestass's review

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This is a comprehensive, historical tale that follows the radium girls of New Jersey and Ohio with detail. However, due to the length of the narrative and difficulty differentiating between the different painters, as well as the various court cases, it's hard to really connect with the victims.

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Content Warnings

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

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

megnut's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Infertility, and Miscarriage