A review by rpweber15
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

4.25

My first John Green book…and my first audiobook! I thoroughly enjoyed them both. It feels weird to rate this particular book, but I’ll give it 4.25 stars. As an epidemiologist, I loved all the disease related chapters, but I found myself really moved by the way John has a habit of waxing poetic about really mundane things that really make them mean something. There really are not just little things in life. That hot dog stand in Iceland? I’m not sure why but I especially loved that chapter. You’ll Never Walk Alone was incredibly moving. Googling Strangers…that one hit my tear ducts. I feel like these essays can hit someone differently each time they read them because the context of life is so important. That feels like a John Green thing but it’s just life. He just happens to tell the stories so well…and so unpretentiously. 10/10 would recommend.