#kate moore

[restinpeacemyangel]

Nem lehetünk elég óvatosak. Mármint szép dolog az hogyha érzel. Az is ha, amit érzel az jó viszont elég egyetlen másodperc SŐT kevesebb, hogy belehalj. Nem feltétlen fizikailag. A lélekről beszélek.

Kate Moore

#Kate Moore

[books-and-cookies]

5 SECOND REVIEW

* what a book, what a story, someone hold me, i'm weak

* this is the story of women who worked at a company that made luminous dials for watches, and these women painted them, using paint with radium in it, during a time when radium was considered a beneficial substance

* with time, they started to develop medical conditions, as a direct consequence of their work with radium, because they were told there were no risks involved, and the technique they were taught was to put the brushes in their mouth, moisten them, dip them in the paint, paint, and then repeat

* after they started developing these medical conditions (horrifying, it was so difficult to read about them), they started a legal fight that lasted decades, in order to get compensation for their conditions and make the company pay legally for the harm it caused

* i cannot recommend this book enough

* the strength and power of these remarkable women, during a time when women were still struggling to get rights, is just... wow, i was in awe

* pls read this, but be warned - it's a difficult read

* 5/5 ⭐️

#books #booklr #book reviews #nonfiction #radium girls #kate moore #mary says stuff about

[carriagelamp]

My internet died for about half a week this month, so I had a really peaceful few days where I had an enforced excuse to do nothing but relax and read when I got home from work. It was incredibly zen and I really sank into my books that week.

The Call of the Wild

A classic novel that I’ve always meant to read. I was sick and headachy this month and decided that this was the perfect sort of relaxing, narratively rich book to listen to. I really enjoyed it, would recommend. It follows a dog named Buck who’s snatched from his home in southern California and is shipped off to work as a sled dog in the Yukon, where a need for strong dogs to help transport goods over the snow and ice makes them very valuable. Buck has to learn how to survive in this harsh environment as everything from the weather, his fellows dogs, and his human masters seem to fight against him.

A Complicated Love Story Set In Space // How To Bite Your Neighbour and Win A Wager

Putting these two together because my experience with them was pretty similar. For both I was intrigued by the title, got them from the library on a whim, and didn’t really mesh with either. I didn’t really get far enough in either to give much of a review, they just didn’t vibe. A Complicated Love Story Set In Space set up a scenario that didn’t really interest me — not surprising, I’m picky about my scifi — and How To Bite Your Neighbour and Win A Wager just had an… odd writing style to it. It very much feels like it’s main goal is to be a kinda horny about vampires which, if that’s what you want, all the power to you, but it’s wasn't doing it for me. I had to suspend way too much disbelief for the scenario to function.

Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire // Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island

A pair of choose your own adventure books I found at a used book sale. I picked them up out of sheer amusement, and they were basically what I expected and paid for: cheesy 1980s adventure stories with Indiana Jones as a nominal protagonist. They were both varying degrees of improbable, ridiculous, and racist so YMMV but they were fun to play with while I was down and out on the internet front.

The Kootenay Kidnapper

Eric Wilson is a classic Canadian author who writes children’s mystery/thriller novels. I’ve never read him before and decided to remedy that. At this point I choose to withhold judgement until I read another… I’m not sure how I felt about The Kootenay Kidnapper. It had some nice descriptive language, successfully raised the tension from time to time and made me really try to piece together who the villain was, but then also had some strange dead zones as well. The whole thing read a bit like a 1990s stranger danger PSA which was also… weirdly nostalgic? But also just weird. Would try another.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation comic v3

I continue to be a MDZS simp, this is not news. 

The Radium Girls

I don’t read much nonfiction, but this book was so narrative in its writing that I seriously couldn’t put it down. Kate Moore took a historical event (the girls that were paid to paint watch dials with radium paint in the early 1900s) that had been written about in scientific and legal styles, and instead retells it with a primary focus on the girls themselves. You follow a variety of real life women over the decades and learn about the all the machinations that went into them being horrifically poisoned by radium, and how that changed the very foundation of American workplace safety. Super engaging, unspeakably appalling.

Scott Pilgrim v1/2

My brother and I started watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off on Netflix and… wow, it is not what either of us was expecting but we are loving it. We’ve both been big Scott Pilgrim fans since the naughts. Since I haven’t reread the series in years I decided I should pick it up to help notice the differences between the original series and this new show — I have the big, coloured omnibus version, so I reread the first collection of stories which amounts to volume 1 and 2 of the original. 

Scott Pilgrim is one of those comics that if you’ve somehow never read then you really need to, it’s one of my all-time favourites. It’s a story about Scott Pilgrim, a young adult who’s awkwardly trying to figure himself out, combining a coming-of-age slice-of-life with magical realism. The mysterious girl he meets, Ramona Flowers, can travel a subspace highway through Scott’s dreams — of course, don’t they teach Canadians how to do that? Huh, maybe it’s an American thing. Scott is known to be the best fighter in the province and when he defeats an enemy they explode into a pile of coins. One of the Evil Exes has Vegan Powers, and another can summon demonic back up dancers. This story just does whatever the fuck it likes and I adore it for that.

Heaven Official's Blessing v3/4

I continue to be TGCF simp, this is not— seriously, the series continues to be excellent and I only get more and more invested in not just Xie Lian and Hua Cheng, but also in the side characters that are introduced. I was thrilled to have Shi Qingxuan become a bigger player in book 4, and really liked the whole plot with the Venerable of Empty Words and Black Water. Please, someone, help this guy…

The Wind in the Willows

Another classic I had never read that I decided to pick up. It was excellent, I can see why it’s stayed so beloved over the years. Though I love a good cute-animals-in-lil-clothes-living-cute-lil-lives story, so I was an easy sell. It was much more tame than the likes of Redwall, but had a bit more going on than the likes of Brambly Hedge — it keeps you very engaged, but never raises the stakes so high that it stops feeling light and comforting. It is essentially a collection of stories that follow Mole and Rat, a pair of friends that live together on the river, through the seasons and the various misadventures they and their friends go on.

The Woman They Could Not Silence

Since I liked The Radium Girls I decided to pick up another one of Kate Moore’s books. This one follows a woman who was intentionally committed to an insane asylum by her husband, purely because she was intelligent and outspoken, refusing to be cowed to his opinions or beliefs. This story details her time in the insane asylum, the abuses that the patients suffered, and how she came to fight the laws that allowed for such abuses to be perpetuated in the first place. A fascinating read about a historical figure I had never heard about before.

#book review #book reviews #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #kate moore #radium girls #the woman they could not silence #indiana jones #choose your own adventure #cyoa #wind in the willows #kenneth grahame #scott pilgrim #bryan lee o'malley #call of the wild #jack london #eric wilson #kootenay kidnapper #manga #graphic novel #chatter

[bookishfreedom]

i’ve never really been hooked by a nonfiction book before but i could not put this one down

#the radium girls #radium girls #kate moore #booklr #books #book #read #reading #reader #bookish #mine #bookblr #bookworm #books and coffee #nonfiction

[starlightshadowsworld]

Don't read the Radium girls by Kate Moore if you have anger issues.

And even if you don't, it will give you them.

Just how many people hid the truth behind Radium and it costing these girls everything.

Makes me want to both cry and punch a wall.

#Kate Moore #The Radium girls

[rachel-sylvan-author]

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

Thank you @postcardsandauthors for the rec! ❤️

#Radium Girls #Women's History #Women's History Month #Nonfiction #Book Rec #Kate Moore

[thisbibliophiile]

- Radium Girls by Kate Moore

#reading #quotes #radium girls #kate moore

[nat-reviews-books]

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Having never heard of the radium girls, or their impact on American occupational health and safety, this book was horrifying, fascinating, and had me wanting a happy ending for the women involved. I was amazed at the beginning with how radium was treated, knowing what we know now about the effects it can have upon the human body. It's thanks to these brave women that we have so many of the safety measures we have now both in the workplace as well as regarding radiation in general. This book told the human side of finding out how radium affects the human body, and it was tragic to listen to how it ruined the women's smiles, their bodies, and the lives many of them had planned. I highly recommend this to anyone interested, as it's a great book that reminds us that these women were people, who had hopes and dreams, and many of them were crushed by working what was seen as a great job.

Recommend this for: history nerds, people interested in science, people who like documentaries on Three Mile Island/Chernobyl/Fukishima, and anyone who is interested in reading it.

Triggers: dental issues (this is a phobia of mine, so some of the parts were really difficult to listen to), death, cancer, bad bosses, radiation.

#books #reviews #book review #the radium girls #kate moore

[starlite-sin]

Kate and Maggie would have been friends if they met send tweet

#the morgue files #kate moore #maggie norris

[voss117]

Kianna Stupakoff by Kate Moore

#kate moore #kianna stupakoff #Model #Black and White

[adrianoesteves]

#kate moore #ambient #Youtube

[restinpeacemyangel]

Bárcsak a szívemet kitéphetném és a lelkemet eldobhatnám.

#kate moore #magyar #writer #crazy #katemoore #magyar tumblisok

[horsesarecreatures]

Book review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

The is a work of nonfiction that tells the story of women who worked at two radium dial plants in the early 1900s painting the watches. The first plant was located in Orange, NJ, and the second plant was located in Ottawa, Illinois. During World War One, this was one of the most prestigious jobs women could get. They were paid three times the average factory floor worker, and were ranked in the top 5% of female wage earners, often taking home more than their husbands. Unfortunately, despite the fact that it was known among scientists that radium was dangerous, the mass public was not aware, and since it was used to combat cancer cells, radium was even promoted to the women as healthful. 

Because the radium-laced paint they used for the watches often dried on the brushes, the women were instructed to “lip point” by putting the brush in the mouths to shape the brush and remove old paint. The founders of the companies knew perfectly well that this was dangerous, but encouraged the practice because it wasted less paint than dipping the brushes in water or using pens instead.

The women who worked at the plants started falling ill at various rates. Because it had opened first, the workers from the US Radium Corporation in Orange were the first victims. Since radium operates similarly to calcium by settling in the bones, the first symptoms the women had were usually teeth falling out. The spots where the teeth fell out never healed and became open, infected sores. More teeth would fall out, and then the women's jaws would then disintegrate. Other bones started deteriorating, and some women also developed bone sarcomas. They all died agonizing deaths eventually. In the beginning, the doctors and dentists involved had no idea what was going on, for they had never heard of radium poisoning. With the amount of young women from the same plant dying, however, eventually they pieced together that the mystery illnesses were related to the women's occupation.

I’ve read a lot of books about industrial poisoning, and this was truly one of the most egregious cases. The companies fired women who started showing symptoms to prevent the other workers from catching on. They never helped pay their medical bills. The Ottawa company’s doctor got rid of a corpse before the family’s doctor could do an autopsy on it. Once the Ottowa company got wind of the lawsuits that were happening in NJ, they had their company doctor examine all the women. The doctor found that over 50% of them were radioactive, but the girls were never given the test results and were told they were healthy. The companies never did anything to prevent lip pointing. The Orange company hired a fake doctor to publish reports that radium was beneficial. The crimes go on and on.

After years of litigation, lawyers in both Orange and Ottawa were able to get justice, but for many of the women it was too late. However, the press their cases received did eventually lead to stricter laws regarding safety precautions around radium being passed, just in time for World War II when the demand for it skyrocketed again.

This book was extremely well researched. Emotionally it was very hard to read, however. The book took a very personal look into the lives of all the women and their families, and photographs of many were included. Additionally, the town I grew up in is extremely close to Orange, NJ, and also has a superfund fund site from radium. Radium breaks down into radon, which is a known cause of lung cancer. I tested my father’s house 3 times for radon. All three times it was below the EPA’s cutoff level, but once it was borderline with the World Health Organizations stricter cutoff. Can't help but wonder if radon was a cause of his death. Going after modern day companies similar to the US Radium Corp is my career goal in becoming an environmental lawyer, though who the hell knows if there will be any broken environmental regulations left by the time the Supreme Court is done disemboweling the EPA. 

#book #non-fiction #the radium girls #kate moore #bookblr #book review

[desdasiwrites]

Radium, he determined, was dangerous. It was just that nobody told the girls…

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

#book quote of the day #kate moore #radium girls #The Dark Story of America's Shining Women #non fiction #historical books #science #book quotes #womens history

[readbythestarlight]

37 pages into The Woman They Could Not Silence and, much like when I read The Radium Girls, I’m already seething with rage. And I know it’s only going to get worse wayyy before it gets better (assuming it does get better at all). Kate Moore’s books about women’s history are so excellent but so bad for my blood pressure.

#Emi reads nonfiction #the woman they could not silence #kate moore #history #women’s history

[jones7thavenue]

J.O.M.P. Book Photography Challenge 2023 | March 17

Your Name in Spines:

American Gods

Leaves of Grass

[The] Irishman

Sleeping Beauties

[The] Thursday Murder Club

American Wife

IT

[The] Radium Girls

[The Complete Poems of] Emily Dickinson

#just one more page #J.O.M.P. B.P.C. #book photo challenge #my name in book spines #neil gaiman #walt whitman #stephen king #owen king #richard osman #taya kyle #kate moore #emily dickinson #i read books so i will live more so i can earn more so i will read more books #queuetasia