With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive ― until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.īut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe they light up the night like industrious fireflies. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger " the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still. I’m not sure how they would appear in a real book.ĭid I miss your review? Leave a note in comments and I’ll add it.A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018 It was meant to have photos, but they only seemed to be visible via the picture index at the end. The end was a bit like the end of the Lord of the Rings films, it kept seeming to come to a close, but then didn’t.Ī note on the kindle version. Plus the way Moore had written it as a sort of story seemed like she had used artistic licence, I don’t think she had made facts up but some things I don’t think she can have known, I’m not even sure if people who were there could remember exactly some of the smaller details. I did want to know what happened overall, but little bits in-between were overlaboured, I think. I found it dragged a little, I feel it could have been stripped down to something like a feature piece in a magazine or newspaper, and it was rather repetitive. Seeing what the girls suffered should make people not want to see that on anyone, even your enemy. The knowledge from the radium girls should mean that those weapons should never have been thought possible, because it shows they aren’t just going to affect the people you intend to bomb, but also those around them, and anyone in the area post-bombing. It felt like Moore agreed with nuclear weapons from the ways she said they helped in ending the war. However, I became somewhat, possibly irrationally, annoyed at Moore for pointing out that it meant those involved with creating nuclear weapons were kept safe. The knowledge gained from their illnesses and the bodies of those who had died meant that working with radium and radiation could be made safer. Moore points out that the suffering of the radium girls was not completely in vain. To imagine the injuries to teeth and jaws was sort of disgusting and sounded like it would be humiliating if you were suffering, They suffered, greatly, with no possible cure, and all the time they weren’t listened to. The girl’s illnesses were not easy to read about. I was also angry at how long it took for something to be done about it, and at how even those not immediately related to the radium industry wanted to deny what was happening. Even as the girls were getting sick they continued to deny that the radium was the cause. They were determined to show the world that radium wasn’t dangerous, despite the evidence they had seen from elsewhere. The radium companies were painted like the Mr Burns type company that only care about profit. The story itself made me angry and upset, with maybe a little hope. It had been on my wishlist for quite some time, but I ended up buying it because it was a kindle deal. I saw a lot of buzz around this book a year or so ago, and it won a goodreads choice award in 2017. It is a story of their fight to find justice in a system determined that radium was safe. The Radium Girls is the story of the dial painters who worked with radioactive plaint with no knowledge of how dangerous it was, until they found they were starting to get ill.
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