A review by izzalice
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays wherein John Green reviews different aspects of the human experience and gives them a star rating out of 5. Reviewing a book about reviews feels very strange to me (hence the no star rating) but I think this is a book we should all have on our radars. Green even mentions in the post-script the different responses he’s had about the essays that people have sent in through the lens of their own individual experiences. 
 
Some of the essays in this collection cover universal topics that many of us have seen in our lives e.g. sunsets, teddy bears (a chapter which I found particularly fascinating), the internet, and Super Mario Kart. Some of the essays are much more personal to John Green's experiences which also explore the wider context and meaning to connect with the reader e.g. The Indianapolis 500, the hot dogs of Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur, and The Mountain Goats. Despite these not being things I have personally come across; the essays were still so interesting, and it gives the reader the sense that it isn’t the subject that speaks to us, but rather the feeling those things bring and how we all share that on some level. 

This collection really emphasises the fact that no matter how small a thing, no matter how relevant or irrelevant a thing is ‘in the grand scheme of things’, our personal human experience has a huge impact on how we view them that may wildly differ from the person sitting right next to us.

John Green is a brilliant writer.