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Ohhhh thank you so much @youneverarrived for sending me this book!! I‘ve been dyyyying to read this for agesss now! Thank you! 😘 and I Love the card! 😆 #jbuk

An absolutely incredible work, from start to finish. I knew next to nothing about this aspect of recent history, and I‘d imagine I‘m far from alone in that—a terrible shame. What these girls (many started work as teens) & women endured b/c of the deceit, negligence, & greed of the radium companies was horrific, & their stories ought to be known by everyone. Moore brilliantly & thoroughly gives them their due respect. Required reading, IMO. 5/5 ⭐️

[Lawyer‘s final brief:] “Language can coin no fitting words of odium with which to condemn the cool, calculating Radium Dial Company [...] I cannot imagine a fiend fresh from the profoundest depths of perdition committing such an unnatural crime as the [RDC] did. My God! Is the radium industry utterly destitute of shame? Is the [RDC] utterly dominated by a beast? ... It is an offense against Morals & Humanity & just incidentally, against the law.”

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Sadly true, much of the time. 🙇🏻‍♀️

Another employee who [lied about her age]—though the company must have known—was Mary Vicini, a sweet Italian girl who had come to America as a baby. She was only thirteen in 1922 but nonetheless made it into the coveted workforce. In truth, the nimble fingers of prepubescent girls suited the delicate work of dial-painting; records show that some were as young as eleven.

Wars are hungry machines — and the more you feed them, the more they consume.

My final selection for #nonfictionnovember — for the TRUE prompt, which I suppose could apply to any nonfiction (except James Frey‘s book & most of the crap put out by far right pundits), but I interpreted it as being the truth behind a story or an episode of history that has been largely unknown. This is about young women working in radium-dial factories who were essentially poisoned by the work, which the companies tried to cover up. #nowreading

Despite my dislike of the writing style, and previous rant, I absolutely have to give this book a 👍. The experiences of the Radium Girls need to be remembered, because corporate greed continues to this day, and there are many companies out there who still try to evade environmental regulations, to the detriment of communities and workers. Every time I hear someone bemoan “regulations“, I am going to refer them to this book. #NFNov

Reading this paragraph in the epilogue sent chills up my spine. So many similarities to an environmental health crisis currently happening in my own community. My town is dealing with an Ocular Melanoma cancer cluster, the cause of which has not been determined. We also live near a Duke Energy plant that has coal ash ponds, & coal ash in the past was buried in multiple locations around our area. It's a huge problem and concern. 😢#TIL #NFNov

#TIL: Even in a heavily researched book involving both law and medicine, the author still can‘t use anatomically correct terms for female reproductive parts, relying on the euphemism “down below” instead?

FFS, that‘s ridiculous. In a book about courageous women who were empowered to fight back against corruption and corporate greed, and the author can‘t say vagina? Come on, break the stigma, stop the shaming.

Okay. Rant over. #NFNov

#NFNov #TIL: One thing that stands out in the section I listened to today is just how deep and long-lasting the corruption and cover-up was to keep radium poisoning out of the public‘s eye. The women who fought both a battle inside their body and in the courtroom were such amazing and courageous souls.

I took a break from this book in October at the 1/2 way point, but have come back to it for #nonfictionNovember. It really plods along though. It‘s such an important book, and I‘m learning a lot, but I have a hard time keeping track of all the women Moore researched, and a lot of the personal stories are blending together.

#NFNov

Thank you to all my #poutinepenpals for you patience. All my responses and intro cards are done and going out to you! 💕💌💕 On another note, I was listening to the tagged book while writing and just heartbroken for what these women had to go through. So many vibrant lives cut short way too soon.

The girls‘ fate in this book is certainly Grim. #scarathlon #chillingphotochallenge #TeamStoker

#Audiocooking and trying to finish this book I started in September. It‘s a long one!

12 bottles of elderberry syrup ready to be labeled! And this is only batch one! I‘m selling it to my neighbors and have 30 orders to prepare and deliver.

I spent a LOT of time in my car this afternoon, and have made a lot of progress in this audiobook! Waiting to pick up Maya at XC, and then I can finally head home.

Radium Girls is classified as history and science, but it also reads as a true horror story to me. The way these women were treated, and what they endured, is horrendous. 😢

After watching Chernobyl, this one caught my eye. These poor girls...

Didn‘t listen to my audiobook on today‘s hike, but I did talk about it! Went on a hike with a friend who also loves to read and we talked books most of the day. 😍

I love this view. It‘s the best and closest ⛰ hike in the area that can be completed while the kids are in school.

#kindledeals #kindledeal #ebooksale

Started my next 🎧 book on this morning‘s #audiowalk!

Change of scenery, taking a walk along one of the greenway‘s near Maya‘s school that goes past my favorite Charlotte park! They‘re setting up for this weekend‘s art festival, which we plan on going to this weekend. 🖼 👩🏻‍🎨

Enjoying the slightly lower temps while they last.

🧪 Currently working through The Radium Girls for #ScienceSeptember and wow, it‘s horrifying on every level. From the side effects, the higher ups turning a blind eye, and the court cases. I‘m only half way through and I can‘t imagine having experienced this. ⁣
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Also weirdly fascinated by the side effects of the radium? The glowing coffin? I‘m just horrified and fascinated at the same time. ⁣

#nonfiction #science #history #currentlyreading

1. I got SO MAD at the business owners for trying to cover up the girls‘ sicknesses. 😡😡
2. Parks & Rec! (I am Leslie Knope.)
3. A piece of bacon and an apple. 🤷🏼‍♀️
4. AZ. Which is its own special thing.
5. Striped Girl. #friyayintro

I couldn‘t resist the 50% Barnes and Noble sale this past weekend. My haul came in!

I‘m so overwhelmed by the size of Priory! 800 pages! 😬

One of my goals for next year is to read 1 NF book a month. I don‘t currently read any. I‘m looking forward to read The Radium Girls.

#bookhaul #newbooks

Great book to start off my Labor Day #Readathon. Must-read for social justice warriors.

Very informative read! These women were subjected to large amounts of radium- so much so they literally glowed- and many doctors and company executives claimed it wasn't the radium. How hard it was for the girls to win at court was amazing. A great story to remember the women who lost their lives and what their deaths did for industrial laborer protections.

This book made me queasy and angry but was still a good read. It was well written, felt like a good representation of the times.

Oy. This was a tough read about the women who painted glow in the dark dials and clock faces, initially for WWI. The paint contained radium, and they were instructed to “Lip...dip...paint” in order to make the brush tips as pointed as possible. These women withstood immense suffering and the actions of the companies they worked for were unconscionable. Their fight for justice paved the way for the rights workers enjoy today.

Beware: This book will make you acutely aware of every ache and pain you have, and livid at all capitalists (especially from the 1920s).

“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 girls had been given a death sentence; yet, they had also been given the tools to fight their cause—to fight for justice”.

The story of the Radium Girls is a guy-wrenching study of human greed, cruelty, indifference, and triumph.

Read this book. Don‘t read it while you eat, and take breaks when you need to, but read it. All the way to the end. Including the Postscript. It made me angry and sad and so grateful to these women.

1. Tagged;
2. Gin and Tonic or iced tea;
3. The Norwegian delivery was placed inside, and the cabinet doors closed with a quiet thump. #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

I can only read this in short bursts because it makes me so ANGRY, and the descriptions of what these girls went through makes my face hurt. But it‘s such a necessary story for the world to know.

Love this reference to Hamlet.

Great discussion about Radium Girls at this week‘s #GirlyBookClub. This was such a compelling read and we were all fascinated by the tales of these women. It didn‘t feel like a 400-page book, which is always a sign of incredible writing.

Starting a new book on Kindle. Excited for this one!

Late to the@party, I know, but I started this on my lunch hour, and now I don‘t want to go back to work. #currentlyreading

Wow. This is a book that should be read by all even if it is a hard, heartbreaking read. I live that Moore tells the womens‘ stories. This isn‘t a bunch of stale facts, figures, statistics, and medical/scientific jargon; it‘s the shining lives of many beautiful, strong inspiring women betrayed by the companies they worked for, by laws that didn‘t adequately protect them, & by communities that valued jobs over people. They were the best of us all.

I have two things I must accomplish this weekend - get the house ready for our hardwood install and finish this for bookclub. We spent about 9 hours tearing out baseboards and casing and we‘re so close to ready. So now it‘s time to turn my attention to my book. Only 170 pages left!

So.. I just couldn‘t stop listening to this one! It was so so good! It‘s heartbreaking the suffering these women faced, yet they persisted and fought on.

While I didn‘t love everything about how this book was written, I cannot get the (TRUE) story out of my head.

The radium girls worked in a factory where they painted luminescent numbers on watch faces. The glowing paint contained radium, which was thought to be harmless. Of course, even after the factory owners knew it was dangerous, they continued to deny it.

A good book to pick up if you want to get in touch with your molten core of rage.

So this book was going to be my drive home book (Saturday I‘m doing a 3 day drive back to Texas from Connecticut). But I listened to see if I can handle the voice (that is a make or break for me with audiobooks) and I got hooked! I‘m already several chapters in :) it‘s a griping story!

This book was so riveting. I couldn‘t stop listening. Highly recommended!

This book is so good. Very informative and well written. Writer does an amazing job of not just telling the girls story but letting the girls personalities show too in the writing. These girls were put through the wringer and their employers were just the worst do have not told them of the dangers of radium.

The descriptions of these girls‘ teeth falling out and losing their jaws is making me think it‘s time to go to the dentist! 🤢

I‘m about half through listening to this and I am HOOKED. It is horrifying and heartbreaking, and I cannot wait to learn what happens next.

Horrifying and infuriating and a must-read. The author does an incredible job of humanizing the girls, and illustrating what a tough bunch of amazing women some of them became.