impatiently waiting for the next Marlon James book...
This link opens in a pop-up window
Success! libroXshu has read 33 of 25 books.
This landmark feminist critique presents a “brilliant and scathing” survey of the forces that work against women who dare to …
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" ( New York Times Book Review ) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a …
An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a …
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the …
There should be November 18th themed parties related to this book.
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to form meaningful …
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to form meaningful …
On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the …
Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.
Mariana Enriquez—called by …
Really excited for this release (Sept 30)...if you are looking for a book that has a fitting October vibe and/or also have a cemetery obsession you may be interested.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, …
Less of a review, more of just some general thoughts. Sometimes pop sci annoys me, but I didn't mind this one. Some parts related to the author adding in some of his life experiences (not really TB-related) weren't my favorite, but now I'm guilty based on explaining my interest in this book. My original interest stemmed from my grandpa being a survivor of TB and learning about how it shaped so many things in his life, including how he spent 3 years at a TB sanatorium in the Chilean Andes Mountains in the late 50s/early 60s. The book covered this time period and sanatorium experiences but also prior and leading up to current day. I appreciate the heavy emphasis on the systemic issues related to TB care and cures. There is such a stigma around TB and so much racism impacting access to care. The book also dives into the …
Less of a review, more of just some general thoughts. Sometimes pop sci annoys me, but I didn't mind this one. Some parts related to the author adding in some of his life experiences (not really TB-related) weren't my favorite, but now I'm guilty based on explaining my interest in this book. My original interest stemmed from my grandpa being a survivor of TB and learning about how it shaped so many things in his life, including how he spent 3 years at a TB sanatorium in the Chilean Andes Mountains in the late 50s/early 60s. The book covered this time period and sanatorium experiences but also prior and leading up to current day. I appreciate the heavy emphasis on the systemic issues related to TB care and cures. There is such a stigma around TB and so much racism impacting access to care. The book also dives into the fucked up profit-based pharmaceutical companies. I love that the book includes a section on other books and resources to read related to various TB topics and data sources.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease …
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, …
Why must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures of individual morality?
— Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green - undifferentiated (64%)
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, …
As a friend once told me, nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past. —— In general, colonialism infrastructure was not built to strengthen communities, it was built to deplete them.
— Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green - undifferentiated
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease …
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the …
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her …
