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A review by pagesfromhome
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts