#the anthropocene reviewed

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

The duality of goodreads.

#the anthropocene reviewed #a random collection #of useful information #that is also a spectacular miracle

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here’s to being there.

[the anthropocene reviewed by john green / stranger things / the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater / käthe kollwitz “the people” / ted lasso / in memoriam by alice winn / sex education / frog and toad]

#murmurations feel like what humans should be #i love you all so very much #the anthropocene reviewed #john green #trc #ronan lynch #adam parrish #lynch #the raven cycle #in memoriam #alice winn #sex education #frog and toad #ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt #royjamie #keeley jones #the gangsey #stranger things #mike wheeler #jim hopper #kathe kollwitz

[gnnosis]

it’s a sad song. but we sing it anyway.

[ the anthropocene reviewed, animated / “permanent,” the milk carton kids / richard siken / the good place 4x12 / the raven king, maggie stiefvater / hadestown (2017) / ted lasso 3x12 / elsa beskow / “no complaints,” noah kahan / angels in america ]

#web weaving #the anthropocene reviewed #john green #the milk carton kids #richard siken #the good place #maggie steifvater #the raven king #the raven boys #the raven cycle #noah czerny #hadestown #anais mitchell #ted lasso #ted lasso finale #elsa beskow #noah kahan #stick season we’ll all be here forever #we’ll all be here forever #angels in america #andrew garfield #web weave #my post

[marvelousmsmolly]

#december 31st #new years eve #nye #mountain goats #this year #john darnielle #vlogbrothers #nerdfighteria #john green #auld lang syne #the anthropocene reviewed

[quintingell]

The snow-white ground was cracked like dried lips and crunched under my feet. I could smell the salt. I kept trying to think of what it looked like, but my brain could only find highly figurative similes. It looks like driving alone at night feels. It looks like everything you're scared to say out loud. It looks like the moment the water retreats from the shore just before a wave rolls in.

~John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

#awesome coffee club #bonneville salt flats #john green #the anthropocene reviewed #nerdfighteria #nerdfighter #dftba #the first picture is sunset and the second is sunrise the next day #did I sleep on the flats you ask? yes kinda

[h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le]

When John Green said

It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it the last couple of years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise.

For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry, to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens, and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony, or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. 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.

and when George Steiner said

Great works of art pass through us like storm-winds, flinging open the doors of perception, pressing upon the architecture of our beliefs with their transforming powers.

We seek to record their impact, to put our shaken house in its new order.

Through some primary instinct of communion we seek to convey to others the quality and force of our experience. We would persuade them to lay themselves open to it. In this attempt at persuasion originate the truest insights criticism can afford.

and when Mary Oliver said

believe us, they say, / it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

#quotes #quoteoftheday #book #books #read #reading #mary oliver #john green #the anthropocene reviewed #life #beauty #love #poetry

[twicedailyquotes]

One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can’t ever quite get rid of.

John Green The Anthropocene Reviewed

#quote #quotes #john green #the anthropocene reviewed #book quote

[on-sinkingships]

we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here

#auld lang syne #the anthropocene reviewed #john green #this is the message i am taking with me going into the new year #nerdfighteria #vlogbrothers

[youreonyourownkid]

“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.”

- John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

#john green #the anthropocene reviewed #words #i’ve started this book today and i’m already feeling unwell. john green we’re really in it now

[msmoony7]

making the wise decision to finish reading the two books that have sat unfinished for two years before continuing to read marauders fics🙄

#marauders fandom #the maruaders #marauders #the marauders era #marauders era #mauraders #the anthropocene reviewed #the picture of dorian gray #tbr #tbr pile #tbr list #book tbr #bookworm #reading #goodreads

[queer-reader-07]

will i ever stop harping on the fact that crowley is an optimist? no. no i will not so here i go again.

so aside from being a full time good omens fan, i’m also a big fan of vlogbrothers, john & hank green, and nerdfighteria in general. (this connects i promise)

and despite being such a huge fan i’ve only ever read one john green book and it was the anthropocene reviewed. which is a novel that’s part memoir part the story of humanity and entirely reviews of things from a human world rated on the 5 star scale.

and a lot of quotes from that novel have stuck with me. but for today’s purposes have these two.

“For me, finding hope is not some philosophical exercise or sentimental notion; it is a prerequisite for my survival.”

“You can't see the future coming--not the terrors, for sure, but you also can't see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.

and because john is a far better writer than i am, he’s phrased so perfectly what i believe to be the fundamental truths of being an optimist. it isn’t about never thinking that shit could hit the fan, it isn’t about pretending you live in a perfect world. it’s about needing hope and always finding hope because how can you get through life without hope? and that hope is what allows you to remember that there are joyous moments awaiting you in the future. yes there are terrors, but the terrors are not and will never be all that there is.

that is what i think crowley embodies. crowley being an optimist isn’t him acting like everything is perfect. we’ve seen time and time again that he knows how imperfect everything is.

and maybe that’s me projecting. maybe that’s me taking what i believe optimism is and deciding that’s what it is to crowley as well. but i think that in part this is what it’s about.

#anyways crowley’s an optimist and that’s deeply personal to me #crowley is an optimist #crowley #good omens #anthony j crowley #john green #the anthropocene reviewed

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

One thing you might not know about me: In addition to being an unpaid social media intern for the world’s best coffee company, I am also a writer of non-social media, including books.

My newest book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, is a memoir masquerading as a book of essays, and today it comes out in paperback. It was the strangest and most joyful writing experience I’ve ever had--my first time trying to write as myself, and trying to understand the way I look at the world rather than imagining how someone else might look at it. I hope you like it. 

#john green #the anthropocene reviewed #not just a coffee company #but still primarily a coffee company #the lore is quite complex actually

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ok book club <3 what are we reading that’s actually good and would maybe fill the trc shaped hole in my soul???? and don’t say reread. unless you say reread the dreamer trilogy because i’m so close to giving into the urge.

please. please. give me your suggestions.

as a frame of reference here are non-trc books i love & would recommend (different content, same soul):

watch over me by nina lacour

in memoriam by alice winn

under the whispering door by tj klune

these violent delights by micah nemerever

the anthropocene reviewed by john green

summer sons by lee mandelo

a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki

i need an actual book club but tumblr took away my group chats :(

anyway love you please give me suggestions!!!!!

#i am also not really a fantasy person #BUT i like magical realism (i just don’t like the whole world building thing personally) #thank you #and maybe let’s all be best friends and read books together #trc #bookblr #book recommendations #book recs #the raven cycle #the dreamer trilogy #maggie stiefvater #nina lacour #alice winn #in memoriam #under the whispering door #these violent delights #micah nemerever #the anthropocene reviewed #summer sons #lee mandelo #a tale for the time being #ruth ozeki

[gnnosis]

we were together. i forget the rest / on togetherness

[ ted lasso, 1x10 / the west wing, 3x05 / the anthropocene reviewed: plague, john green / frog and toad all year, arnold lobel / the raven king, maggie stievater / four friends, salman toor / leaves of grass, walt whitman ]

#web weaving #on togetherness #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #the west wing #twwedit #toby ziegler #the anthropocene reviewed #john green #frog and toad #frog and toad are friends #arnold lobel #the raven king #maggie stiefvater #trc quotes #the raven cycle #the dream thieves #salman toor #walt whitman #leaves of grass #we were together i forget the rest #hopepunk #hope punk #peoplehood #on peoplehood #my post

[leastparanoidandroid]

John Green talks about The Mountain Goats — The Anthropocene Reviewed

#oc posting #the mountain goats #john green #the anthropocene reviewed #quotes #literature

[agardenandlibrary]

My final Book of the Month books have arrived! I'm hitting pause on the service. (I ran out of gifted credits so this is a convenient time, haha.) I have 4 books from them waiting to be read so I don't want to keep adding and adding more.

I'm really excited for the Anthropecene Reviewed!

#cara reads 2023 #my book picture #the adventures of amina al sirafi #the anthropocene reviewed #shannon chakraborty #john green