Evelina | AvalinahsBooks’s Reviews > The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women > Status Update

I am still struggling about this review. Or even the interview questions! It was just so good, I don't feel like I can ever do it justice.

Finished. Not without tears. Is there anything you'd like to ask the author? I will be compiling questions for the interview now, so if there's anything you'd like to know, just point it out and we can see if I can include it.

The description of the court proceedings where Catherine Donohue has just been told she will not survive her plight has got to be the most emotionally strong passage of any text I have read in years.

I can't stop being baffled at the genius of newspaper headlines back in the 20s. All of the ones I've seen quotes have been just brilliant! Wealthy businessman dies from 'treatment' by radioactive water. Headline: "The radium worked fine until his jaw came off." Brilliant.

If there ever was a time that I wanted to believe the Christian hell with pits of fire, it would be when reading this book. I keep devising all sorts of horrid karma for these pathetic excuses for a human being, which thankfully are all dead. Not to say that today we don't have their replacements. Humanity has yet far to go. Farther than I had hoped.

Squeee!!! The author agreed to do an interview with me!!!

Squeee!!! The author agreed to do an interview with me!!!

Squeee!!! The author agreed to do an interview with me!!!

Squeee!!! The author agreed to do an interview with me!!!

I couldn't stop reading till 1.30 AM. Jesus.