Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

46 reviews

erin22's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful, thoughtful, informative regarding new subjects and insightful regarding familiar ones. A excellent review of Green’s collection of reviews from the modern age.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

novella42's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief and Chronic illness

basicbookstagrammer's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Medical content

marsspider42's review

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Part pop science and history, part memoir, in this book John Green details how he has enjoyed the Anthropocene so far. Written primarily during 2020, this book reflects on the distinctly 21st century things that have shaped Green's life and how they interact with his mental health, especially in the current time. 

This book will make you want to cry about things you have never before heard about. I think the audiobook version would be fantastic. Recommended to anyone who likes trivia and genuine love of the world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Medical content

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

THE AUDIOBOOK! John narrates it himself (I find his voice so soothing) & one of my favorite essays was an audio exclusive. I just described this book to someone as a 'pop culture' book, but I think that does it a great disservice. This book is just so much more than that. I actually have not read any of John Green's novels (yet), but I have been following him and his brother Hank (read The Carls!) for a couple years, so I knew going in that John has a way with words. You may flip through the table of contents to read the titles of the essays and think this book sounds rather ordinary, but John is able to take even the most seemingly mundane topics and weave beautiful connections to (the often brutal) humanity. There were several times when I was misty eyed.

I give John Green's book 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Minor: War, Slavery, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, and Antisemitism

Animal death -

Spoiler

extinction of species, descriptions of hunting and animal cruelty (zoos, captivity, human disregard for animal well being/sentience) - all of which are told in historical context

myths_reads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This has to be one of the best non-fiction and audiobook experiences I have had in my short reading life. 

This book feels like watching John Green on YouTube. It feels like a conversation with a friend. It's so incredibly intimate and yet knowledgeable. It's filled with panic-striking ideas and yet bubbling with optimism and logic. 

When John Green discussed his anxiety, I felt seen and connected. I remember thinking, "Finally, someone gets it." I think that pretty much sums up my feelings about the book. John Green gets it. Not everything about this book is mind-blowing, but it is very human. And that's a good thing. 

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Content Warnings

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

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō  story made me bawl my eyes out. I think I'm gonna have to buy the physical copy so that I can reread it at some point and highlight favourite passages. But also I think it's great to hear an audiobook of a book of essay by the author himself. With fiction it can feel weird since they're narrating their characters but with essays they're narrating their own thoughts which I think is nice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Self harm, Animal death, Colonisation, Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide, Racism, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Slavery, Violence, War, and Vomit

emilyexley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Medical content

hanz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

erosikessel's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death, and Alcohol