Type of read: Commuter Read.

What made me pick it up: I've always heard the radium girls' story, and it's intrigued me.

Overall rating: First and foremost, 'The Radium Girls' made me incredibly mad. The fact that this happened at all is just horrendous, the fact that it happened for so incredibly long is asinine. I feel like the message and the information within 'The Radium Girls' is extremely interesting and something more individuals should know. I did see some other reviews commenting about how Moore seemed to focus on what the girls looked like, what they were wearing, and what their social status was. I felt like maybe within the book they were trying to get across that this could happen to anyone. The amount of detail that was provided for each individual affected by the radium poisoning, and such their ultimate decay as a human being, was a way for Moore to show that this was truly an unbiased disease. I don't know if the pacing and style Moore used was really my style or how I would have approached the book, but all in all, it was good information about a time in our country's history.

Reader's Note:  'The Radium Girls' includes graphic depictions of the health issues 'The Society of the Living Dead,' and many others, experienced due to their work with radium paint.