📚 Book Club: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 🌍

Do you believe there is absolutely no profound meaning or beauty to be found in everyday, mundane things like the QWERTY keyboard, scratch-and-sniff stickers, or the Penguins of Madagascar? This month, we are taking a uniquely personal and quirky look at the world we’ve built. In his first-ever work of non-fiction, 1 internationally bestselling author John Green gives us The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet. The Anthropocene is our current geological age—an era defined by humanity's massive impact on the globe. But rather than a dry science textbook, Green approaches this era as a critic, rating the varied and absurd facets of our shared human experience on a five-star scale. Blending history, trivia, and deeply vulnerable memoir, this book invites us to look at our chaotic and beautiful world with a renewed sense of empathy, curiosity, and wonder. As highlighted on Goodreads, this collection is a masterclass in observation: > Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers' Favorite Nonfiction (2021) > A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from 1 internationally bestselling author John Green > The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale. > Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book. > Whether you're already a fan of John Green's storytelling or you simply want to practice paying closer, more compassionate attention to the world around you, this discussion will be a treat. Come join us as we rate the Anthropocene—and perhaps share a few five-star reviews of our own!