Wave

by Alan Jacobs | Jul 30, 2025 | Book

Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala.

This is a boo written by an author whose Husban, two sons and her parents were all swept away in the Tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004.

I enjoyed this book, although the first half was difficult to read because the story was so distressing.

It’s a really sad book about loss, but then it becomes a beautiful book about memories and living.

The font is big and readable.

Everything is Tuberculosis

by Alan Jacobs | Jul 15, 2025 | Book

John Green

I wanted to enjoy this book, but sadly, it wasn’t compelling to me. There was a general history of how TB has been endemic during history. It is a slow moving killer.

Now it is generally curable, although it is building drug resistance.

Since it seems to be a disease of poverty and uncleanliness, not much effort is being put in to eradicate it. The last half of the book seemed to be making this point over and over. The point may be true, but I found the repetition tiresome.