Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

61 reviews

heyitscin's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Suicide attempt

kmturpie1025's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: War

larareads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child death and Grief

Minor: Cancer

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

libbyhb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

 This book captured the exact energy I loved so much in John's videos when I first discovered Vlogbrothers and watched their 2007 backlog. I really appreciate the way John approaches nonfiction writing, especially the way he mixes information and emotion for whatever topic. Honestly the entire time I was like, this would be a great podcast - and then at the end I found out it IS a podcast and has been for three years. Whoops! But that's one of the things I liked best about the flow of the writing - the way it sounded like it could be read out loud really well. My favorite essays were Googling Strangers, Piggly Wiggly, and The Notes App.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

treereads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Cancer

makennak's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Grief

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

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.

phobosm's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

The audiobook is a pleasure to listen to. Audio clippings of near-extinct birds and a singing John Green. Way too saturated with disease and pandemic ramblings scattered throughout the book, got stale eventually.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, and Drug use