# Loading States

Some queries need the state of a single subject rather than a view across many, and can read it the same way a command does.

To read the state of a single subject without executing a command, for example to answer a query about it, call the `load` function of the store with the subject, and name the state as the type of the result:

```rust
use architecturekit::Subject;

let book: Book = store.load(&Subject::new("/books/42")).await?;
```

`load` reads the events exactly the way `execute` does before it decides, including `from_latest` and the state cache. For a query across many subjects, use a view instead (see **[Defining Views](/docs/architecturekit/rust/defining-views)**).