I give this book 5 stars

This is maybe my new favorite John Green book, I thought about it constantly even when I wasn't reading it. I'm a sucker for learning interesting new facts.

My top 3 favorite reviews in the book were:

• - Piggly Wiggly

• - The Indianapolis 500

• - Lascaux Cave Paintings

Feels meta to review this book with a 5-star rating system, lol

I loved this book from cover to cover. It made me cry more than once. reading this as it feels the world is falling apart made me feel a little better. Or a little less alone in the despair. Can’t wait to pass this book around 🥹

This is perfect. I loved it! Five stars!

John Green made me cry about birds

A bunch of my friends have read this book and I love to read recommendations from friends so I picked this one up. I'll admit, I did not get the hype at first. Sometimes reading nonfiction during the semester just feels like work for me. I can't sit down and properly enjoy it because I've got three thirty page readings to get through that week. But then I was granted access to the audiobook (shoutout Kelsey) and that made it so much better. Listening to John Green just talk to me in the same way I like to talk to my friends sometimes was awesome and I found myself feeling like I was just hanging out with a friend and having the kind of simultaneously goofy but intellectually stimulating conversations that the best friendships produce. The real turning point for me was the double whammy of "Auld Lang Syne" and "Googling Strangers"; those two just absolutely gutted me. Overall, a great read. I think for some of it I just wasn't feeling it because of the whole school thing so this may be one I revisit in the future and bump to five stars. But for now, for its refreshing, poignant, and complex commentary, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, four stars.