The Radium Girls Book Reviews

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What an incredible group of courageous women. So glad this is coming to light and people can read what these women had to endure. Really shows why we need workplace protection.

Radium Girls. One of the best books I’ve read in a long time.

Couldn't put this book down.. I've recommended this book to my whole family, my best friends, everyone I know. All I can say is... holy sh*t.

Heartbreaking and Magnificent. I couldn’t put this book down. The author truly did justice to these young ladies and their struggles.

What a scary read. One of the most disturbing books to read on dip, lip, and paint, to put radium on the watch dials to glow at night, and no wonder these women died such gruesome and hideous deaths!! And what their families had to endure in trying to get help and sue for medical bills and pay for funerals. A must read!!

Read it.. I was horror stricken from almost the first page. The description of radium as "life-saving," the explanations of how rich people (for only they could afford it) would drink it for their health, the visuals drawn of the work room where the girls worked, with radium drifting through the air, "settling on their shoulders," making them gleam as they walked home in the dark, and then the actual description of their work...putting the brushes, as they were instructed, in their mouths. I could not help but remember when my elementary school teacher read portions of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"out loud to our class, and how horrified we were then. This was so much worse. Even more so, since I know we owned a couple of the clocks these girls had worked on...the Baby Bens that took their lives. Read it. If only to remember them, and never let corporations get away with this kind of intentional murder again.

Tragic, but beautifully written. I had heard about the radium girls before in passing, but was shocked to discover how much there was to the story. This book was incredibly sympathetic and well researched. This is not a “feel good” story, but it achieves a noble goal by setting the evils of the past right one reader at a time.

Amazing book. It’s inconceivable that something like this could occur even a century ago. The company knew radium was maiming and killing these women but hid the reports so they could get richer on the suffering, financial ruin and agonizing deaths of it’s workers. You get to know these girls, some as young as 13. An amazing and must read book. Highly recommend.

Speechless. Wow. Wow. Wow. I am not one to read about non-fiction things like this, but I could not put this book down. The way this book is written is insanely captivating. I experienced so many emotions while reading, it left me speechless, I was horrified, sickened, angered, saddened, and more. Anger. I even cried at some points. This is a story worth hearing, reading, knowing. READ THIS BOOK.

Highly recommend!. Excellent book. So interesting, and the author brings each girl to life. Hard to put down!

A story that must be told and be heard. The mother of a friend of mine was a dial painter during WWII. She died young of cancer. When I found it, I had to read this book. It’s so important on so many levels. Women, social structures, war and industrial efforts, and especially the lives of every day working women who went before me. My only disappointment is that there was no mention of dial painting happening again in WWII.

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