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Brooke_H
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This was a fascinating examination of a part of history I didn‘t know much about: the girls and women who worked painting luminous watch dials with straight-up radium and the resulting court case against the US Radium Corporation. This book is very hard to read at times—radium poisoning is a horrifying way to die, and Moore doesn‘t shy away from giving us every detail. I would have liked more personal details about the women.

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Bookwormjillk
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A short but impactful graphic novel about the women who worked in factories painting numbers on timepieces with radium laced paint.

kspenmoll Love this cover! Good to know it is in graphic novel form. 2mo
ElizaMarie Oooo I loved this book. I need to check out the Graphic Novel version of it :)
#Stacked
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Bookwormjillk @kspenmoll the cover glows in the dark! 2mo
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MaggieCarr
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Kate Moore- you make me grit my teeth while reading. Thank you for telling truths, for riling people up with your storytelling, for compelling readers to speak up and out about wrong doings in history so that going forward we can do better.

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Cosmos_Moon
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This is a heartbreaking account of women seen as disposable by industry fighting for their lives & justice while corporations made millions. A nonfiction following the short lives of women doing glamorous work painting clock & watch faces & military instrument dials with glowing radium paint. The women‘s history spans before WWI to WWII, telling stories of their friendships, families & fight for future industrial hygiene & workers‘ compensation.

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Cosmos_Moon
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Happy beach day in Pensacola! Although glowing, not so bright for the girls of Orange, NJ and Ottawa, IL in the 1920s.

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Christinak
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This was a very difficult subject matter. I pretty much read this straight through.
To be honest I probably sped through this to avoid having my mind sit on the horrible, tragic lives these women led.

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JackOBotts
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My #roll100 pick for February. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Moore‘s undertaking of this tragic (yet critically important) moment in American - and world - history was a gripping narrative. Difficult to read at times, one can only imagine the suffering the women endured.

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 13mo
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Clwojick
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@Pigpen_Reads Here are the books I chose for you to read for Januarys #TrappedOnAnIsland. 💛. You had so many interesting ones on your list, that it was hard to choose! 💛

Pigpen_Reads Thank you! I'm really hoping to get through these this month. I really need to tackle my TBR 😅 What's perfect is that Girl Made of Stars is also one of my #Roll100 picks! 1y
Clwojick I‘ve heard a lot of good things about it! Can‘t wait to hear your thoughts, since I have most of these on my TBR too 😉 1y
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these_dreams
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First book of 2023

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kspenmoll
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📕 Radium Girls
📓 Ruth Rendall
📽️ Rear Window
🎸R.E.M.
🎤Revolution (Beatles)
#manicmonday #LetterR