The Radium Girls – Cannonball Read 17

“Lip . . . Dip . . . Paint.”

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

December 31, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

What I have to say about this book can be whittled down to one classic Samuel L. Jackson moment in cinema: And I truly mean that. Anyone with an ounce of empathy will find this one a tough go. Moore extensively researched the women this story is about, and she pulled not only from scholarly books and articles about them, but from their own personal correspondence, journals, and memories from friends and family. The result is that you get a clear picture of just exactly […]

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, […]

Radium…the wonder drug. Oh wait, nope.

December 5, 2018 by cheerbrarian 3 Comments

This story is the very definition of the word fantastic. It is unbelievable. If you enjoyed (though, enjoyed is a strong work) Devil in the White City or Killers of the Flower Moon, buckle up and prepare to be horrified by more actual American history. In the 1898, we discovered radium. It was great! Just neat-o. It glowed, it was heralded as a wonder drug. WHAT. YES. And, the Radium Girls were the lucky women hired to work in factories that used radium-based paint to […]

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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