Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

70 reviews

nrogers_1030's review

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.

aahrobot's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I know others have said they don’t like how dramatic the author can be, but I think it makes it more interesting. I enjoy the facts, statistics, and quotes, but I really loved how Kate Moore showed us more of these women. Their lives, families, hobbies. I got to know each one of them, just as she had, and I think it adds more to the story. It makes this nonfiction story read like fiction. I learned things, felt things, and ultimately enjoyed the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Child death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, Infertility, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

lark1010's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, and Pregnancy

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

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

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

roksyreads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

A heartbreaking and inspirational account of resilience and bravery in the face of corporate greed, corruption, and utter negligence, The Radium Girls is a must read for anyone interested in social and cultural history. Moore paints in vivid detail the women (and their supporters) at the forefront of the movement to hold their employer(s) to account, and whose actions made significant contributions to early workers' rights movements more broadly. It was a privilege to read this book again after first reading it in February 2020.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Cancer, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage, Infertility, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

jackslackofshelfcontrol's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Misogyny