John Green wishes us “Welcome to the Anthropocene”

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Anne-So "Echos de Mots", youth literary blogger and contributor to the

Books reading group, recommends

 by John Green, published on January 27, 2022 by Éditions Gallimard.

His favorite quote:

One might be tempted to see labyrinthitis as a metaphor: my life was unbalanced, and so I was struck by a balance disorder.

[…] But the metaphorization of disease is precisely what I wanted to write against in Tortues à l'infini and The Fault in Our Stars – two novels which, I hope, do not present obsessive-compulsive disorder and cancer as battles to be won or a symbolic manifestation of the character's faults or I don't know what else, but like illnesses with which you have to try to live as well as possible.

Why this book?

• Because the author of The Fault in

  Our Stars

   returns with his first work

  of adult non-fiction: 

  Welcome to the Anthropocene

  .

  If you don't know what this term means, nothing better than to read the author's explanation: "The Anthropocene is a term coined to define our geological era characterized by the profound and significant impact of humans on the planet and its biodiversity.

• Because before being a book,

  The Anthropocene Reviewed

  was a podcast

  started in 2018, each episode of which consisted of a chronicle highlighting the contradictions of human life.

  In the podcast as in the book, John Green dissects certain concepts by incorporating his opinion and his own experience of the subject.

  His pen, although it often adorns itself with lightness, is incisive, ironic and hard-hitting.

  The columnist combines the universal and the personal in this funny, instructive and fascinating work from the introduction to the afterword.

• Because the themes are varied and can be dark or perfectly

  absurd, but whatever the subject, the author manages, in a few pages, to captivate and involve the reader. From the coronavirus to the sunsets, via “The Penguins of Madagascar”, teddy bears or viral meningitis, the forty-four chronicles follow one another and are not alike. Yet they all have something in common: their analysis is both funny, sensitive and fine.

• Because

  Welcome to the Anthropocene

  is both a dive

  into our society and into the brilliant mind of a man with many hats.

  The author's fans will appreciate finding his pen so recognizable and pleasant, and if we are used to reading his work in teenage literature, there is no doubt that he will be able to charm readers of all ages here who want to humorously dissect our human-centered world.

  
  

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 From "Super Mario Kart" to Monopoly, passing the sycamores, the qwerty keyboard or the plague, John Green gives us here more than forty chronicles and dissects our human-centered world with humor and finesse.

Characters.

 No characters here, just the author, his thoughts, and the mention of his relatives, including Hank, his brother.

Together, they are at the origin of the community of Internet users Nerdfighters, which through online videos, aims to fight against poverty.

Places.

 The earth.

The time.

 According to the thesis of paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, the Anthropocene began 5,000 years BC.

AD, with the development of rice cultivation, animal domestication and the clearing of forests.

The author.

 John Green is an American author specializing in children's literature whose novel The Fault in

was a huge bestseller.

In 2014, Time magazine included him in its list of the "100 most influential people in the world".

He signs, with

, his first non-fiction work.

This book was read with 

pleasure by Anne-So Echos de Mots, blogger specializing in children's and teenage literature.

“For me, reading can be as much a personal pleasure in which one runs to take refuge as an excuse to discuss and meet other readers.

I am a lover of words always interested in new discoveries.

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