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]]> Review7009936370 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:46:57 -0700 <![CDATA[Summer added 'Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection']]> /review/show/7009936370 Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green Summer gave 4 stars to Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover) by John Green
The irony of finishing this book when I myself have gotten a bad cold, with a really sore throat. It really accentuates how anyone can get sick, and it’s not their fault.

I like how John Green highlighted the social impacts of being sick. There's the first, which is general aversion to an infectiously ill person, naturally it’s because you don’t want it yourself, but the emotional turmoil that adds onto someone who already isn’t feeling well. And then there’s the more sinister, blame. People try to blame someone who’s sick, to ease their minds that it’ll never happen to them. I have a chronically ill mother, and I have been recently suffering from chronic issues, and I’ve experienced firsthand how people will always try to blame the sick. The stigma was really important to highlight and John did an excellent job.

It was really important getting to learn of Henry’s story with TB, it really humanises the TB experience, and helps to alleviate that stigma and blame when you learn one person's journey, and how these events (such as no longer taking the medication) can come about. Henry is a wonderful person. I can’t believe how much suffering he had to go through, and it was a miracle that he pulled through. He’s a very inspiring person and I wish him all the best.

John highlights how the numbers of those passing from TB are insurmountable, and how difficult that is to process, but I love the way he helped us visualise it.

I really enjoyed the way John told the history of TB, and as usual with his works, there is an element of looking at it through the lens of literature, my favourite thing.

What John, and Henry, and everyone else fighting to ensure equal health and access to treatment for all, have achieved is truly inspiring, we should all be grateful such souls exist, and really highlights the importance that this must continue. ]]> Rating851549068 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:53:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Summer liked a review]]> /
Summer liked Carolyn Marie's review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection:
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
"Thank you, John Green, for writing this book.

As I listened to this audiobook, I felt my mind, and understanding of tuberculosis, expanding. The way John Green expressed his thoughts and shared the history of “our deadly infection� was fascinating and heartbreaking.

This is such an important read, and I’m honored I got to hear it. "
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