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soccer8s's review
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This was an amazing book. I learned so much. I cried... this is a really touching story, thank you for telling in the girls eyes!!!!
apuffett's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
frenchfrybri's review
4.0
i liked this style of nonfiction. and as someone who’s profession injures them, i’m grateful to these ladies for pioneering protections for workers
beckchicken's review
3.75
The epilogue of this book should be 21st century required reading.
It can be easy to feel like something that happened almost 100 years ago is a story of the past, but with a half life of 1,000 years, radioactive material is so much more than just an occupational hazard for those working with it. This book adequately honors the memory of the workers of Radium Dial, and is impressively well researched, especially given that a lot of the information in the early years of Radium Dial was intentionally covered up, and many of the issues were not reported on as they happened. The lives of the workers are the primary focus of this book, and I appreciate that by the end we know quite a bit about each of them. I would have liked to have seen a more in depth presentation of the implications for years to come, since Radium pollution will last for thousands of years, and has to this day impacted multiple generations of families.
It can be easy to feel like something that happened almost 100 years ago is a story of the past, but with a half life of 1,000 years, radioactive material is so much more than just an occupational hazard for those working with it. This book adequately honors the memory of the workers of Radium Dial, and is impressively well researched, especially given that a lot of the information in the early years of Radium Dial was intentionally covered up, and many of the issues were not reported on as they happened. The lives of the workers are the primary focus of this book, and I appreciate that by the end we know quite a bit about each of them. I would have liked to have seen a more in depth presentation of the implications for years to come, since Radium pollution will last for thousands of years, and has to this day impacted multiple generations of families.
oliviasantioni's review
3.5
The book was interesting but very much a history lesson which isn’t my favorite hope of book. I did find the story compelling and interesting but also very depressing. I think it is an important story to know and understand the greater implications. Overall though it was hard to follow all of the lives of the different people and keep straight the lawyers, dial painters, their family members, the employees and people working for the companies, etc. there were just so many people involved there were a lot of times it took me a minute to realize who we were taking about. It also felt like there would be a brief pharagraph talking about one dial painter to then switch to another one. Kinda felt like I was getting jerked around. I understand they are all important and, from reading how much research went into the book, that there was a lot to cover about the girl’s personal life, but I think because the author really for to know all of the girl’s family it might have been hard for them to take a step back and read the book from an outsider’s perspective because, to me, trying to keep track of everyone was confusing. I would have been happy just focusing on a couple of girls and letting the rest just be “Dougs” (Brandon Sanderson Tress reference) but I know that is basically the opposite of what the author wanted.
verbosevespertine's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0