Trio and Tuberculosis
Dec. 28th, 2025 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI was apprehensive about Trio by William Boyd as I've had mixed success with his books in the past - but this one was absolutely a winner!
It follows three characters involved in a film being made in Brighton in 1968 - the director's wife, one of the producers, and the female star.
It's very internal and very literary, very sharply observed and very involving.
One of the characters is a writer and I related very strongly to her experience of wanting to/trying to write (though definitely not other aspects of her life).
I found it compelling right the way through and an excellent read overall.
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green is very well written, very readable - and rather manipulative, but I guess that's fair, since he's trying to make you, as the reader, care as much about his topic as he does. But certain aspects of the story of Henry, the TB-sufferer he met in Sierra Leone in 2019 (who sparked his interest in the disease) were presented in rather a disingenuous way. Still, the whole book was interesting, it taught me a lot of things I didn't know, and I think the message is an important one.
It follows three characters involved in a film being made in Brighton in 1968 - the director's wife, one of the producers, and the female star.
It's very internal and very literary, very sharply observed and very involving.
One of the characters is a writer and I related very strongly to her experience of wanting to/trying to write (though definitely not other aspects of her life).
I found it compelling right the way through and an excellent read overall.
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green is very well written, very readable - and rather manipulative, but I guess that's fair, since he's trying to make you, as the reader, care as much about his topic as he does. But certain aspects of the story of Henry, the TB-sufferer he met in Sierra Leone in 2019 (who sparked his interest in the disease) were presented in rather a disingenuous way. Still, the whole book was interesting, it taught me a lot of things I didn't know, and I think the message is an important one.
