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Tu mundo y el mío: Postales del Antropoceno by John Green
62 reviews
justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition
4.5
“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
Anthropocene. I've never heard that word before. But it means:
the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
Wow. I really loved this book! When Storygraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge had a prompt for reading your least read genre, I thought it would be short stories, or nonfiction. But it was essays. I didn't think I had any other essay books other than Virginia Woolf, and I didn't want to read those right now. But when I saw John Green's book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, was an essay book, I was intrigued, and excited to pick it up as an audiobook, which is narrated by John Green himself. Listening to authors reading their own book is always a delight, especially if it is their memoir or autobiography. I was surprised by how meta this book was, the way it referenced that this was an audiobook while I was listening to it, and some nature sounds as well. It made the audiobook experience very engaging! Some essays were very engaging and interesting, and John Green covers a lot of topics in here that I was very interested in, like shows, memories, grief, COVID-19, chronic illness, anxiety, and just a lot of other random little things that I've experienced or remembered that I was not expecting him to reference in this book. The other essays were a little too random for me, but overall, I related a lot to the topics that were discussed in this book. I also really liked the way that he rated the essays after talking about them. Listening to this book from a perspective where we are out of COVID-19 and listening to him talk about a 'new normal' made this book a totally new experience! And for that, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed 4.5 stars!
Graphic: Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic
eedle_cacleberry's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Grief
Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cancer, Medical content, and War
luxxautumn98's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic
mj_86's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cancer, Medical content, and War
noellegrace8's review against another edition
5.0
While I don't include audiobook performance in my star rating of a book itself, I have the unique experience here of being able to critique the same person twice. Because John Green is an incredibly gifted speaker, and because I believe that audiobooks voiced by the author themselves have the potential to be the best of their kind, there's nothing about this narration that didn't hit the mark. I give John Green reading his own book the Anthropocene Reviewed... 5 stars.
Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and War
While it is a generally mild book, The Anthropocene Reviewed is written during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdown, making loneliness and all things pandemic-related a recurring theme. Additionally, as John Green is diagnosed and medicated for his mental illnesses, being mentally unwell is also a theme.matty_joe319's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child death and Death
nutmegandselkie's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Grief and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child death
bmpicc's review against another edition
5.0
Thank you John Green for helping me slow down. For helping me open my eyes again. For reminding me that it is ok to like, dislike, enjoy, or be nervous about literally anything because my thoughts and feelings are valid too.
This essay collection includes everything. Who knew I could find comfort in an essay about Diet Dr. Pepper, or wisdom hearing his take on Halley's Comet? I didn't realize Green and I are the same age. I felt oddly closer to him when he gave a shout out to a bottle of Strawberry Hill. This book was straight up comfort.
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide
danasaur's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
wickedgrumpy's review against another edition
2.75
I found myself reading an essay or two about topics I had varying levels of interest in, and on to the next essay I would read the title and often put the book down because I had had enough of the meandering stream of consciousness associations for that session.
There were some things that I found value in, but it wasn’t really my cup of tea.
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic