Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

91 reviews

avadore's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

 Really enjoyed the careful tread between hopefulness and reality that Green is able to display while also exploring just some... really weird and wonderful stuff about the world and the mark we have left on it. One to keep on my nightstand and re-read when I can't sleep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Mental illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Medical content

kimi72714's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book pulled me out of my reading slump in the way that only the writing of John Green can do. 

I knew many of the stories from Vlogbrothers videos, and so, even without the audiobook, John was reading aloud to me in my head. 

This book made me cry laugh with lines like "But you do so much yoga!", and real laugh with lines like "I've read more books on Hamlet than parenting". 

The pandemic is still going, and I'm still huddled inside my house to keep myself and my community safe, but this book reminded me how to fall in love with the world. 

The wind is whipping around my house as a big weather front moves through, which is very common this time of year. But I can hear the kids next door squealing in delight as they play in their backyard, and I'm grateful for a connection to the wider world. 

I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Islamophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

ntvenessa's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

A scrapbook of memories reflecting on the life of one, John Green, in the modern world, the Anthropocene. Indeed, it is phenomenon forward, and analyses our human relationship toward such phenomena. It shows that the distance between person and subject is not so distinct as we imagine, and that our experiences of a thing, contribute to the thing, as well as vice versa. It is about the density and quality of connection hewn in the modern world. The writing is deeply introspective and generous, and the themes broadly applicable to all. The essays capture the experiences of events spread across the spectrum of a life well lived, and indeed still living. Ultimately it is a beautiful, hopeful read, and personally my favourite Green novel. I rate The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Antisemitism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and War

lyd41's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is the first time I've been so invested that I even read the 'Acknowledgments' page. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death

andrewward's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death

spaceraspberry's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Minor: Antisemitism

ladyandherlibrary's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Death, and Child death

esophagus18's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death

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

pagesfromhome's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

The Anthropocene Reviewed is one of those rare books that, when making you confront your place in the world, makes you feel small while also making you feel infinitely powerful. I'm writing this review after rereading this book, and I started it again because I knew I wanted to start 2023 with a book guaranteed to make me feel something.

Some of the emotions are heavy and hard to carry, but most are good. They give me respect for this weird experience I've been granted to be a human being in this time on this Earth with these people around me. In taking notes while I was reading, I jotted down, "I'll be 70 years old when Halley's Comet comes around, I never really cared about that before." and "Need to read more about the US Council on Books in Wartime."

And that was it because even though this was a book I knew I wanted to write a review of, I was far more interested in experiencing it than analyzing it. All that said, this book is a perfect pick if you are looking for something to remind you that being a human comes with a wide spectrum of experiences and that it's complex, but that's okay because that's precisely what it's supposed to be.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Child death