LovedThe last one I read by him was Everything's Tuberculosis. That was very good.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis (2025)
Creators: Liked Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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LikedI just expected it to go a little deeper because the author mentions that he's obsessed with tuberculosis. And the book is a little surface level, but it makes it a good introduction into the topic, very good for book clubs, also.
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LovedI gave it five stars. Thought it was really interesting and also made me cry a couple times.
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LikedEverything. Tuberculosis is good.
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LovedOverall, I loved this. I gave it 4.5 stars.
LovedSo, it was really fascinating to learn more about tuberculosis because I didn't know a lot about it before discovering this book and listening to it. And I love the way that John Green presents a topic, especially when it's non-fiction.
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LovedAnd I feel like you can just tell that John Green cares so much about tuberculosis and informing other people about it as well that this has just been such an amazing read. I also love the audio book because John Green narrates it himself.
Likedso like there was a lot of this book where I was just like yeah I've heard this before. I've read this before, but this is like a good collection about it and like hopefully, you know, strides are made in terms of like tuberculosis and cures and things like that.
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.
Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.
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