Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

66 reviews

spacekee's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation

quasinaut's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

No notes. This book was extremely educational and well-researched, but also deeply personal and reflective. Hopeful and moving and funny and topical and informative. A phenomenal listening experience.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Panic attacks/disorders

brookey8888's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed this! I learned a lot and some of these essays made me emotional which shocked me. I’m not going to lie some of this went over my head, but overall it was easy to follow and understand. There’s a lot of humor in this, but a lot of seriousness as well. It really made me think of all the little things in the world as well as the big things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death, and Mental illness

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

totallybookedforlife's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Death, and Cancer

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

aharper's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

grahamjpark's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed this book. John used reviews of random things from present day (or recent history) to share his thoughts on life. His thoughts were different from mine and I found they offered interesting insights. If you're someone whose already gone deeper on the topics of grief and "why are we here" perhaps you'd find it shallower, but I would still recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Grief

Moderate: Cancer and Suicidal thoughts

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