Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

60 reviews

ceecee9093's review against another edition

funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

samvansam's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

earth loving earth.

i give the anthropocene reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Colonisation

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad

5.0

the irony of leaving a 5 star scale review on a book that has so much commentary on the 5 star scale is not lost on me, and initially I didn't want to review it for that reason, but I loved it so much that I felt like I should tell you all that. My relationship with John Green as an author goes back almost 10 years. I've always loved his books, his Tumblr posts, and to borrow a line from TFIOS, I would read his grocery lists. Through his fiction he has always captured humanity through such a beautiful and sometimes ugly lense and so when I found out he was coming out with essays on the human condition, I was signed up immediately. It did exactly what I thought it would do. It brought me comfort, made me cry, made me laugh...specifically the chapters "Auld Lang Syne" and "Sycamore Tree" really got me. He reviews things that seem trivial like Dr. Pepper and then a chapter later he's talking about the meaning of life itself. I've really never read anything like this and at the same time I feel like I've read this before because the person who wrote it seems so familiar to me.

For its insight, it's softness in this rough time, and for keeping me company when I can't sleep at night, I give John Green's the anthropocene reviewed 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Genocide, Mental illness, Medical content, and Colonisation

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Antisemitism

Minor: Animal death

kendallreadsbooks's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Medical content

elissareadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

i laughed. i cried. i felt like when you spend five hours having deep conversation with a good friend, come home happy and exhausted, and collapse on the couch to take a nap. this was so special and personal and my heart feels like it cracked open a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Xenophobia

erniedresser's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

caitlinjadams's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

This was exactly the right book to for me at this time. I’m very grateful to have had it now and will certainly return to certain essays again and again. None of that helps you know if it would be the right book for you, but it’s the essence of what this book is for me. It matches what I need in this weird time with my particular brain. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic with references to the pandemic woven throughout.

kayleyhyde's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

skudiklier's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I loved this book more than I can say. It's so unique and I honestly think almost anyone could love it; it's probably the only John Green book I will unreservedly recommend to anyone, regardless of their interests.

I've listened to every episode of the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, meaning I had kind of already read a great deal of this book before it came out. I do have to admit that I think some of the really impactful moments in these essays are more impactful when you hear them read aloud by John; however, they don't lose much in their written form, and he has gone back and added quite a bit too.

I also really love the mini reviews he has for things like back page book ads and the font used in the book. They gave me so much delight to notice.

You already know this, but I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Grief

ahliahreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma