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Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

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Book 21: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Rough Review: 3 stars. I don’t know how to review this, or what notes to write to let my future self know how I felt or what I was thinking after reading it. TBA is a talented writer and quite brutally…funny isn’t the right word, maybe amusing? But I think for me, a lot of this reads as characters and situations in service of commentary, commentary that is miserable and true and not completely true and certainly […]

A History of Tuberculosis That Says Much More About the World in General

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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This is a science history meets cultural history of tuberculosis but really could be used to understand so much about the systems, institutions and structures of disease, and the role poverty, capitalism and racism all play in access, stigma and treatment. I have only read one or two of John Green’s novels. I think the contrarian in me just resisted reading something so popular, especially when it didn’t even have dragons or fae in it. I know he has done a lot of other things […]

“Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

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Plot: Aza is stuck inside her mind, and it is not friendly territory. Why would it be, if she, like the rest of us, are mere receptacles for billions of bacteria to propagate. She is not a person, she is a country or a planet. A non-sentient thing moving through the world with her movements and thoughts and actions compelled in some way by the bacteria or some other thing, but never her own. That’s hard enough as it is, but is made all the […]

“the history and present of tuberculosis reveal the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans.

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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Maybe not everything, but a surprising amount for sure. Green is entirely right that I don’t give much thought to tuberculosis. It feels like a historical disease, like scurvy. But of course, tuberculosis is still enormously pervasive in certain parts of the world. It’s interesting to me that he focuses on the way the disease is ravaging parts of Africa when even within North America there are communities being affected. For example, here in Canada, of the 23.8% of cases of tuberculosis that manifest in […]

Now is a good time to become familiar with social determinants of health

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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What a time to be alive and listening to John Green narrate his book, Everything is Tuberculosis. I’ve been listening to it slowly because I am always on the verge of a rage stroke and I want to outlive the current administration. I listened to the last chapter and post script hours after reading that the Department of Education has decided that nursing is no longer a profession. I’m lucky to be alive. Sophia’s review of Everything is Tuberculosis is probably better balanced, because I […]

A boy named Henry

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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CBR17Bingo: “Borders” – because even though bacteria do not respect borders, whether you contract or can fight off tuberculosis depends primarily on where you live. I know tuberculosis still exists in the United States because many years ago I had a patient cough in my face and later found out she suffered from tuberculosis. I knew just enough to be kind of concerned until I got tested and was negative. My only other knowledge of tuberculosis is that Doc Holliday suffered from it in Tombstone. It […]



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