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Finished a few weeks ago. When I was in kindergarten we had to have a TB skin test where we lined up. The nurse(?) administering it told me “to watch the bubble” & I promptly passed out. I woke up on a cot, was forced to drink the carton of warm whole milk that was sitting outside class in a wagon all morning & eat a graham cracker & the entire experience left me with a decades long phobia of needles & seeing ⬇️
DebinHawaii … them as well as a long-standing aversion to milk & a hesitant (okay in crust or s‘mores) relationship to graham crackers. This traumatic episode & the fact that I‘ve not read John Green before made it unclear why I felt the need to put the ebook of this book about TB on library hold 🤷🏻♀️ but I‘m glad I did. It was actually a quite interesting & compelling look at a disease that is considered the world‘s deadliest. ⬇️ 2w
DebinHawaii …That it is a curable disease but there is such disparate care given based on economic & racial inequality & greed is beyond angering. This book doesn‘t go too deep into the science so it‘s accessible & Green personalizes the story by following the path of a young patient in Sierra Leone. An important book & just an excellent read, this will be a top title for me this year & maybe get me to read more Green. 2w
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2w
julieclair Excellent review. And what a sad story about your personal experience with the TB vaccine and the lingering after effects. 💝 1w
