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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to get through as much of How To Survjve a Plague (AIDS mémoire/nonfiction) before the library yoinks it back.  Really good but wasn’t exactly Christmas fair.[/quote]

I was able to renew and finish it this week!  Really good (although really long — the audio book is 24 and a half hours) and very interesting for me to learn more about that era.  Also a little disconcerting to think how much of it overlapped with my life; I remember the “you can’t get AIDS from shaking hands” lectures in my rural elementary school although I had no notion of the experience adults were living in big cities at the time and for the decades previous.

The author based this book on a documentary film he made of the same name and also has a documentary film on Covid so I’m going to see if I can find those at the library too.[/quote]

If you want a corresponding fiction book about the AIDS crisis, read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. It's so good. [/quote]

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