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ans of John Green’s beloved podcast will want to check out THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED, his same-name collection of essays based on, and adding to, the series (Ebury Press). The Anthropocene is the idea and other novels, reviews diverse aspects of life – using a five-star scale (Halley’s Comet gets 4.5). Green writes that the podcast was an attempt to understand our contradictions – “how we can be so compassionate and so cruel, so persistent and so quick to despair”. The said it’s the perfect book to remind you “what it is to feel small and human, in the best possible way”.

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