The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (audiobook)

 genre: nonfiction

This collection of essays is just John Green's thoughts on...lots of things.  Kentucky bluegrass, his favorite band, the smallpox vaccine, the invention of the type writer - the list is so eclectic but these ideas are woven together in such a way that what we are getting is John's view of life in this common area - this world that we live in that only exists as itself for right now at this moment. 

I loved this. I love him.  I love where his thoughts go and how he ties them together. I love his vulnerability and the way he makes me look hard at things I don't normally think about.   He reminds me that the world is beautiful and astonishing and that in a time of COVID, sometimes the places we can look for answers are even closer than we think.  I am so glad I listened because his voice is as familiar as a friend's.

Five stars.