Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

190 reviews

kathrynmaggiex's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is my new favorite book. I can’t stop recommending it to people. If you need to feel some hope about humanity, this is a great read. It’s a perfect combination of interesting (and funny) facts about history and deeply moving personal narrative, with some philosophical analysis thrown in there. I feel like if I read this book enough times, I would eventually come to understand the meaning of life. I listened to the audiobook with the author’s narration — I highly recommend this format, as it’s much more powerful hearing it in John’s voice. I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Pandemic/Epidemic

lauramcc7's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

rallsley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is my first John Green book experience, but not my first experience of him. My first experience involve my boyfriend introducing me to VlogBrothers when talking about fond pre-college memories. I have since married this boyfriend and in turn he successfully made me a Nerdfighter. But I was still a jock at heart and reading was still off the table until this year when, as Green puts it, my entire life turned into a "What's the Point?" game.
Read this if you want to learn about the author, the man who has been present since before YouTube and now emerging from the "post" Covid-19 pandemic world. Be enlightened with new ways to describe the fuzzy static that happens during a panic attack with the familiar prose of a John Green video (probably the books too but again, haven't read them. Yet)
Only losing 0.25 because I' m mad i didnt think of this memoir format first, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed 4.75 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol and Death

a child with severe burns all over was in the ER where John worked as a chaplain. It's not terribly explicit, but he does mention the screaming and agony and helplessness of the parents he wasn't sure how to comfort in the waiting room. Moments like that affected the author enough that he didn't end up going through with divinity school and changes careers. For awhile after that even he believed that the child didn't make it, but he did and he was able to meet with him.

cozy_tea_reader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this audiobook - I felt like I learned more about the world and about the author and I definitely want to check out more of John Greens Books now!!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Grief

ti1453's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful, surreal, sappy, and real— 5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

amyappy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

This may be one of my favorite bits of writing I've picked up in quite a long time (perhaps since I read Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed). I am excited to share pieces of this with my students, too, but it's wonderful and worth reading just on its own without needing to be "instructive" or "good for you". I listened to this (and Clint Smith's book as well) on audiobook, read by the author, which I highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Mental illness, and Child death

nutmegandselkie's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Grief

Moderate: Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death

bmpicc's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was not what I expected. Full disclosure: I had no idea what Anthropocene even meant which is probably why I ignored this book for so long. Perhaps I feared it was "too smart" for me?

Thank you John Green for helping me slow down. For helping me open my eyes again. For reminding me that it is ok to like, dislike, enjoy, or be nervous about literally anything because my thoughts and feelings are valid too.

This essay collection includes everything. Who knew I could find comfort in an essay about Diet Dr. Pepper, or wisdom hearing his take on Halley's Comet? I didn't realize Green and I are the same age. I felt oddly closer to him when he gave a shout out to a bottle of Strawberry Hill. This book was straight up comfort. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

virgcole398's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Medical content, Death, and Grief

If you’re an overthinker like me, you’ll love this book

danasaur's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

4.5

Particularly excellent as an audiobook!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Drug use, and Death