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A review by phobos_irl
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
5.0
i lie on my mattress as i sit with the silence of the finished audiobook. my heart is racing with the anxiety of the exams that await me tomorrow, physical health taking a hit as if to attest of the truth of my fear.
i had a shit evening.
funny how now that ive finished listening to the book (ive had my audible subscription for almost two months now and "listening to the book" doesnt feel any more natural) i can't help but think of me, of my life, of my hollows.
but i am earth, loving earth, loving earth, loving earth, loving earth.
i am nothing, i wasn't evolved for this, but i was born to bare witness, to pay attention, to take care of others, to love and be loved.
during my listening of the book, i have sometimes stood as if stung by what was told to me, like i had been slapped. as John Green uttered the words "post scriptum", it felt like a goodbye, like watching someone leave, like feeling my hand being let go of. this book felt like my hand being held for a time.
i went into The Anthropoce Review with no exceptation at all, just curious to see what the author of the books i love most as a barely-teenager and the guy i sometimes see on my for you page would have to say. maybe i loved it all the more for my lack of expectations.
i am coming out of The Anthropocene Reviewed feeling unbearbly human, unbearbly alone, unbearably part of a whole, unbearably ignorant, unbearably loving.
thank the moon i have the rest of the evening to process the feelings swallowing me now.
i give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.
i had a shit evening.
funny how now that ive finished listening to the book (ive had my audible subscription for almost two months now and "listening to the book" doesnt feel any more natural) i can't help but think of me, of my life, of my hollows.
but i am earth, loving earth, loving earth, loving earth, loving earth.
i am nothing, i wasn't evolved for this, but i was born to bare witness, to pay attention, to take care of others, to love and be loved.
during my listening of the book, i have sometimes stood as if stung by what was told to me, like i had been slapped. as John Green uttered the words "post scriptum", it felt like a goodbye, like watching someone leave, like feeling my hand being let go of. this book felt like my hand being held for a time.
i went into The Anthropoce Review with no exceptation at all, just curious to see what the author of the books i love most as a barely-teenager and the guy i sometimes see on my for you page would have to say. maybe i loved it all the more for my lack of expectations.
i am coming out of The Anthropocene Reviewed feeling unbearbly human, unbearbly alone, unbearably part of a whole, unbearably ignorant, unbearably loving.
thank the moon i have the rest of the evening to process the feelings swallowing me now.
i give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.