Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

81 reviews

irishrose7777's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

chezler24's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

I was finally able to re-read this book again after several years. I really enjoyed how care was put into showing the personalities and lives behind "The Radium Girls." Too often with historical accounts, individuals can be reduced to lifeless facts and statistics, but this author went out and sought to shed light on the humanity of the girls as they faced what occurred. The reader gets to experience the awe and joy of landing a coveted job as a dial painter, the confusion when multiple painters were failing mysteriously ill, the anger and determination of the court cases, and the triumph and drive in the court's final decisions combined with the girl's opportunities to help the scientific world that once threatened to bury them (literally and figuratively). This group of workers which could have been relegated to a simple footnote in history has a legacy that saved others regarding understanding the effects of radiation on the body, improving workplace environments, and creating legal precedents to help others get the justice they deserved. 

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Content Warnings

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

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

this was so informative. i think this is one of the most accessible non-fiction books i have ever read. this is because it was written in a narrative way. 

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Content Warnings

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

fraise's review

challenging informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Domestic abuse

tfay765's review

emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

spookily's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death and Domestic abuse

lindseyrenee's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

This is an example of profits over people. I was so sad and angry the entire time

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Content Warnings

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

eleyasolyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

songofthewolfy's review

I really didn't like the tone of this book. There were too many tongue-in-cheek one-liners at the end of paragraphs that I felt really minimized what had been said. That, and a lot of editorializing about how we, the reader, should be perceiving these people, and trying to draw very clear good/bad lines. I found myself becoming annoyed with the prose, and as a result couldn't get into the narrative.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Misogyny, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage and Blood