Some may not be as interested in all the immune system detail that I am. Due, I’m sorry to say, to my lack of awareness because Fauci made a name for himself during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Anthony Fauci, would have meant little to me. An aside: If not for this pandemic, the often cited name in the book, Dr. The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled my intrigue with the immune system. I also plan to read it again at some point in 2021. I took notes as I read it for quick reference and to help me learn. Yet, he writes it in an almost fiction style and with the stories he shares of four individuals who experienced immune system problems, it feels (almost) like fiction.īecause my “Learner” strength drove me to this subject and book, I approached it almost like a textbook.
This is a long book at just over 550 pages. In the time I got to do correspondent work for print publications, I realized how smart reporters must be to do that job well.
On a daily basis, their job is to take complicated subjects and really ‘dumb them down’ for the general public. I have high regard for journalists, true journalists, and know firsthand they are strong writers. While the book and the tale of four lives intrigued me, the biggest reason I chose his book was because he was a New York Times journalist, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Thankfully, Richtel published his book in 2019 and up it popped when I searched again earlier this year. I had quickly searched the internet a time or two since then for a layperson’s book about the immune system, with no success. And I learned just how quickly and forcefully the immune system can mess you up! Thankfully, my immune system recovered however, I was the sickest I’d ever been over five-ish decades. This book, An Elegant Defense, and this author, Matt Richtel, take a complex subject, the immune system, and weaves “a tale in four lives.” It was exactly the book I’d wanted since 2013-14 when my own immune system went berserk (triggered by severe food poisoning).
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