For our August pick we chose Radium Girls by Kate Moore. Drawing on previously unpublished sources including diaries, letters, and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives. The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar.
This is a book from Hoopla. Hoopla is a book and video service that you can access with your library card. Its benefit is that it will allow all of us to check out copies of the same book. You can also get in touch with me at ayosco@lapl.org for a physical copy of the selected book, while supplies last, if you prefer.
Access the copy via Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11865831). If you don’t already have a Hoopla account you will need to create one. Go to https://www.hoopladigital.com/ and select “get started today.” Enter email and make up a password. You will be prompted to select a library, look for Los Angeles Public Library. You will then need to supply your library card number.
The plan is for everyone to obtain a copy and spend the first couple of weeks of August reading. I will begin posting questions to discuss on the group’s web bulletin board space on August 12 and will add a new question each day until August 22 (our regular meeting day). I encourage members to log on each day to answer the day’s question as well as review, and respond to, the answers other members provided for the previous days questions. We will then meet via video-conference on August 22 at 3:00.
If you’re not already a member of our web bulletin board space email me at ayosco@lapl.org. I will send you the details you need to know to sign yourself up.
Make a note: if you plan to join the video-conference you’ll need to send an email to ayosco@lapl.org so I can get the conference link to you.
