Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

358 reviews

aprilb_reads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Colonisation, Classism

countessofderby's review against another edition

3.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness

gxuosi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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i have pthisiophobia, or the pathological fear of tuberculosis—but not in the sense that i’m terrorized of idea that i will contract it. rather in the sense that i am hyperfocused on keeping track of tuberculosis; like someone else might obsessively check the weather. i’m not sure where my phobia comes from. i couldn’t tell you the day i realized tuberculosis existed or the day when i realized it wasn’t gone. i grew up near a sanatorium and my great grandfather eventually died from tuberculosis, none of which seems to have actually caused my phobia. so i can’t explain it in any meaningful way. ultimately, this all ends with me spending cumulative days tracking outbreaks, checking generic production and emergent drug development statuses, and watching in abject horror as we continue to CHOOSE to let people die. and all of this before covid 19 was identified. so color me surprised when an author i loathed (sorry) for no inherent reason (except the anne frank house kiss) wrote a book about something so important to me that no one else in my life really understands. because as an american, absolutely none of my friends knew before i told them that tuberculosis hadn’t actually been cured. this book is everything to me and yet nothing i didn’t already know. but i know what it’s going to mean for anyone who has lived with the privilege of thinking tuberculosis is gone. so thank you john green for writing a bestselling romance novel where they inexplicably kiss in the anne frank house, because that ended up making you write this with your very well known name plastered right on the front. and as you know, your name is a megaphone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Blood, Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Abandonment, War

amberlfaris's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, War

wokstar99's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

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"Ultimately, we are the cause. We must also be the cure" (184)

What an amazing book, learning the historical context of TB and how it persists in the modern day was so interesting. Also, everything in a way relates back to TB. Henry's story had me tearing up and it was the emotional throughline throughout the novel. I picked this up on a whim, and boy, am I glad that I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death, Death

katara42's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

xyln's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism

Minor: War

skepticalyarn's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

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this is such an amazing book about diseases of injustice. if you think tuberculosis and its history is boring, this book will convince you it's not!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

itsheyfay's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation, War

Minor: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Religious bigotry, War

beginnerbooktok's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Classism

Minor: Abandonment