Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green, 2025
History Popular scienceContemporary fiction
John Green traces tuberculosis from sanatoriums to modern cures, asking why a disease we can treat still kills millions—and what our failure says about us.
Feels like hope and serenity. About death, memory and home.
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The gift of remembering we are all just people.
It reminded me, that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other. But only when we see one another in our full humanity. Not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world. John Green.Before becoming a novelist, John Green reviewed books for Booklist and trained as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital.
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- What is Everything Is Tuberculosis like?
- Feels like hope and serenity. About death, memory and home.
- What should I read after Everything Is Tuberculosis?
- If you liked Everything Is Tuberculosis, try The Lorax (Dr. Seuss), The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris) and The Scorch Trials (James Dashner).
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The last seed in the world, handed to someone who didn't ask.
Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It’s a Truffula Seed. It’s the last one of all! You’re in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.
The Lorax · Dr. Seuss
What a man promises himself when survival is not enough.
Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz · Heather Morris
The monsters are gone; the pictures in their heads are not.
Somehow she projected a jab of cynicism into the words. I keep seeing Grievers. Their disgusting skin and blubber bodies, all those metal arms and spikes. It was way too close for comfort, Tom. How’re we gonna get something like that out of our heads?
The Scorch Trials · James Dashner
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