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

December 14, 2019 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Radium Girls” is the true story of the young woman who used radium to paint clock hands and faces to “light up” in the dark. Radium was a new element discovered by the Curie’s that was touted as a miracle drug. It was also industrialized, during WWI and WWII, for soldiers to use on their instruments and watches to keep time and data during darkness. […]

The Bad Kind of Glow in the Dark

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

June 15, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve noticed a bit of an interesting trend for me: I’ve started getting a little more into non-fiction. Since I work with a good bit of that kind of thing professionally, I haven’t really done much for spare time reading. And yet here I am with what could be my third(ish) non-fiction review of the year. Unlike my luck with best-selling fiction (generally poor), I seem to have done better of late with the best-selling non-fiction. The Radium Girls is non-fiction, and the best kind, […]

43: The arc of not listening to women is long.

June 10, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve been hearing a lot about Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls, and Our Shared Shelf just made it (or The Hate U Give) the May/June book. I’ve not read a lot of nonfiction over the last several years, and I’ve been trying to be more well-read in less-known issues. This book was compelling, but I should warn you, also infuriating. After the Curies discovered radium, it became enormously popular. Manufacturers used it in paint for watches and dials, and this meant hiring lots of young […]

They glowed, but they also died

February 4, 2018 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

I loved the way this book was written. Sometimes I have a hard time with non-fiction books, because they’re not very exciting. Don’t get me wrong – I love facts, and I understand that certain things need to be built up to and earned before they make sense. I just find some non-fiction dry. This was not dry. It probably helped that it was told through the eyes of the actual “Radium Girls”. I just read the author’s final words, and she was actually struck […]

Lip, Dip, Paint. Ending CBR9 with a Gift Exchange Review

December 31, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I am halfway through three different books right now but with the noon deadline and all I have to do this morning this will be my last review of 2017. This has been a fantastic year- 144 books- that were mostly good and several were great (including the following) and while a few were not so great I am not sure how I’ll possibly beat this year for CBR10. Radium Girls was an excellent book to end the year on; sure it seemed appropriate to end […]

Cannonball Gift Exchange. Thank you so much ElCicco

December 8, 2017 by Caitlin_D 3 Comments

I came home from work today and collected the numerous boxes from my front porch. Between Christmas shopping and getting some last minute things from Amazon for a trip my husband is taking there has been a pretty steady stream of boxes gracing our household. Needless to say, I was so excited to see I had received my Cannonball gift since everything else coming to the house seems to be for other people… Well, I have to nominate ElCicco for the Cannonball Gift Giving Hall […]

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