Everything Is Tuberculosis

Before you started this book, what did the word 'tuberculosis' bring to mind for you, and did anyone in your family ever have a story about it?

John Green writes as if he's sitting right next to you. Where were you curled up while reading, and did his voice ever make you feel like you had company?

Henry's story runs through the book. How did getting to know one person change the way the bigger history felt to you?

The book shows many people caring for the sick, from families to nurses to strangers. Was there a moment of care that stayed with you, and did it remind you of someone who once looked after you?

For a long time people romanticized TB as a beautiful or artistic illness. How did it feel to read about that, and have you ever seen suffering made to seem prettier than it really is?

Green is open about his own anxieties and fears around illness. Did his honesty comfort you, and did it make it easier to think about your own worries?

The book shows that a curable disease still takes so many lives. Where did you feel heartbreak while reading, and where, if anywhere, did you find hope?

When you closed the book, did you want to do anything differently, whether that's how you care for people, what you pay attention to, or how you think about strangers far away?