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The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

4.44 AVERAGE

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5.0

December 2024: What I noticed more than anything with this reading is how many other texts John references. I want to read more, to think more, to get to a point where I always have a quote, song lyric, verse, or scrap of art to add context to my daily life.

It's such a rich way of experiencing.

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I've read a lot of writing by brilliant meaning-makers in the last year: Maggie Nelson, Mary Ruefle, Audre Lorde, Milan Kundera, and Albert Camus-- but none of them made me cry as much as John Green did in these essays. John's meaning-making is so rooted in humility, such an open display of striving, it shook me. More than anything, the way he makes meaning is deeply accessible: The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful example of a person choosing to care, consciously, conscientiously, and unrestrainedly.

In John Green fashion, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed four and a half stars.