What I Read June

 I am linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy.  I am enjoying my summer reading. Yes, summer reading is for adults! Check out what everyone else is reading.

The books I read this time I feel like I share a very personal connection with.

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

This was a book I read for book club. I had no idea that this would be so interesting. I thought this fascinating. I don't think most people realize that TB is the world's most deadly disease. It is also a curable disease. The book follows Henry in Sierra Leone and his journey with having TB. You can't help to fall in love with Henry.  Another interesting aside and related "Everything is Tuberculosis" that the New Mexico basically became a state so people could seek the cure.  I visited Fort Stanton that was many things but also served as a TB hospital for Merchant Marines. 

I have a personal connection to TB. My dad was treated for latent TB.  This was written before USAID was cut.

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

I thought this was a good book but took me a few chapters to get into it. This is based on a true story about the American Library in Paris.

"In the Paris Library, inspired by the true story of librarians at he the American Library in Paris during World War II, two women come of age under very different circumstance - one in occupied Paris and one in rural Montana some forty years later."

My personal connection is that my husband's grandmother, Nanna, was in Paris during WWII and she was also a war bride. I kept thinking I wonder if she was a subscriber(patron) of the American Library. She worked at the Department of Education in Paris. Nanna was multilingual.