The Radium Girls [Excerpt] by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls [Excerpt] Reviews

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  Elyse Walters

  This book is free as a kindle download---
  I still need to read it I may change my rating....
  But I didn't know how to tell others about this free special if interested.
  
  It's a true story. "The Girls of Atomic City"
  is another true story I thought was absolutely phenomenal, and they're comparing the intensity of this book – – being a true story with The Girls of Atomic City and Hidden Figures, and "Rise of Rocket Girls"
  
  There was another book on Netgalley earlier this year that people read - I remember Cheri reading it - giving the book high ratings ---check her review--- but this book is an excerpt -of The Radium Girls. - approx 100 pages ....
  Just long enough to give an experience but not the full novel.
  
  A FREE introduction. I was interested- just thought I'd pass on 'daily deal'. lol. :)
  
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  Tiffanie Haynes

  I don't usually do reviews but for this book I really have to stop and do one. This book was so well done I think I cried multiple times. The author Kate Moore did not just tell you a tragic story about industries power over the little people. She made you a part of these women's lives. This is one of those books that although Im finished reading it the characters will never leave me. By the time I had finished the book I felt like all of these characters where old friends. The energy she put into this book was amazing. This book will have you up in arms and wanting to fight corporations in your free time. Excellent book and really can not praise it enough.
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  Norma Peters

  Author Kate Moore has done justice to these women, the Radium Girls. More people should read about this tragic story.
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  Ann

  Fascinating, horrifying, heartbreaking, inspiring meticulously researched and written.
  I could not put this book down. I read this book in three sittings and was so drawn into the lives of these courageous, young women. Very engaging, harrowing account of corporate arrogance, greed and a cover up of the atrocities of working in an unsafe environment for employees of the radium dial industry. These young ladies, as young 14 years old were working unbeknownst to them with a poisonous, deadly element (RADIUM) that would slowly and painfully kill them. These courageous "Radium Girls" paved the way for employees to have safe environments to work at to earn a living and hold corporations accountable for their unsafe working practices!
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  Ana

  So painful to read and see how the radium watch dial girls suffered and were lied to. The overall book was somewhat long with many characters which made it somewhat confusing. Nonetheless, a part of history I did not know about and a very sad story.
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  Jenna Nelson

  The research was incredibly impressive and great writing, but for me I started to get bogged down in the middle on details making it harder to finish. I did greatly appreciate the epilogue! I can’t imagine how much work was put into this book!
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  Phyllis

  This was a powerful book about the diseases the ladies fell ill with from working with and ingesting radium.. It was deplorable that the dial companies KNEW radium was dangerous but still told the girls it wasn't.
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  Brittany Kocisak

  This is a good read. It's very journalistic and some what reads like reading a newspaper. I love information and statistics but if you are looking for a narrative story line this book would not be for you. It's deep and devistating.
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  Lucinda Vinoski

  Moore has researched and written a chilling story from the history of these young girls so full of life and ambition who trusted their employers and worked industriously using their talents as artists to paint dials. However, the method and poor safety standards became a silent killer and many died horrible deaths at a very young age. In time the truth leaked out and as more girls came forward with mysterious illnesses it was found that they all worked in these radium plants. The radium was substituted by their bodies for calcium and destroyed their bones and cause large tumors.
  
  Read of their long struggles to stay alive and fight for compensation for themselves and their families to pay medical expenses.
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  Lesley

  I REALLY wanted to finish this book but I just couldn't read any more due to the author describing ABSOLUTELY EVERY FACT she uncovered in her research. The subject is fascinating but the book is so bloated with extraneous info nobody cares about (the patient's street address 100 years ago) that I would need a gross of red pencils if I were the editor.
  
  When I picked up the book again after 4 days with house guests, I read one page, shook my head and thought "no more". I'm now reading Radio Free Vermont which I really like so far.
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  Brianna Denton

  Would give this book a 3.5 if I could, but good reads doesn’t allow it. The story line was incredibly interesting, fascinating, hearting breaking, and devastating, though it was not a “page turner”. Some chapters were boring and dragged on, but overall a good book. It was also very interesting reading about my home town, Ottawa.
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  Evalyn

  The fascinating, true account of the "dial painters"- the young women who painted glow-in-the-dark dials on watches in the early 1900s, an effect achieved with radium, and the horrific results of handling this new, magical discovery of the Curies. Gripping and well-written, the author makes readers feel as if they know these women and, as a result, we care about them.
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  Nurse Payne

  I gave it 5 stars because it's an extended excerpt that supplied me with enough information that I didn't need to read the book. No offense to any author intended, but if an excerpt doesn't leave me hungry for more info, the rest of your book is probably a lot of superfluous details. This excerpt was perfect.
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  bj combs

  Incredible Book about the tragedy of young women who were painting radium on watch dials.
  It's a must read - though it is painful in so many places because of how these women were lied to and how they suffered.
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  Karen

  Read the “excerpt”…now I need to learn the rest of the story. So far it is a horrifying story or corporate greed and willful disregard for human life. The women in the story are stalwart and hardworking.
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  Kimberly

  Really loved this book! So shocked and saddened by what happened to these young women! But not surprised by big company cover ups!
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  Bette Behrens

  Heart wrenching, warmth. A part of history I knew nothing about. I recommend it highly. Wonderful & sad story of workers against big corporations.
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  Maria McNamee-Hirt

  Haunting
  
  Clear writing, dark topic. Very interesting. Very deeply terrible and unrelenting. There is no dread quite like fully confirmed dread. A prescient warning about industry, "It can't hurt you. You will likely even benefit..."