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Mushrooms are cool!

You are invited to view my latest booktube episode about my weeklong fibre arts retreat plus five books I‘ve recently finished.
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This was an amazing book. To be honest I almost did not read it, I had downloaded the audiobook but the narrator was not for me. The print book was much better.

I also had to google a lot of the Latin names and the print book allowed for me to get the spelling correct.

Interesting and informative.

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#science

It's clear that the author comes to this subject with a sense of wonder, happy to explore new and old questions that don't necessarily have answers. It also seems the author is happy to float off a little farther outside the box than the textual framework might initially seem to support, and that he's happy to repeat himself if he thinks it will help convey the information he's focused on. 1/3

Yeah, THAT Beatrix Potter, apparently had a whole mycology thing going too. Who knew?!

Pretty, glowy greeeeennn. 💚😍

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And the prettiest lichen name goes to: "water speckled midnight". ???

Okay, English, time for another update.
"grammar of animacy" ?

"...sneak up on the truffles,..." ??

Not sure where that analogy came from, but I'm enjoying the word picture. 👻🪩

"...bat habits." ? Pun-derful. ?

WTF, IKEA?

How is it I was fairly certain the story that song tells is true and yet it never occurred to me that Alice's Restaurant was too?! Of all the places to make this discovery...

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For some reason, you never hear that one when people are doing the pantheon rundown...🤔

Everything about this is awesome.😎🍄🖋️

Oh my gosh @DinoMom - I squealed!!! I wasn't able to get hold of a copy in time for the #Naturalitsy buddy read, but I so wanted to read this one, I find fungi fascinating! And the matching stickers were a lovely touch. And THESE CHOCOLATES! You guys, they're the most beautiful fancy chocolates! Thank you so much!

#jolabokaflod @MaleficentBookDragon

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about fungi. This is an extremely approachable book about a huge subject. I was especially fascinated by the chapter about making building materials (and other things) from fungi. Who knew? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Almost forgot to post this. This was my first #buddyread in ages. It was for #Naturalitsy. Saw it while scrolling and it somehow caught me and I dived right in. It took me a time to get into it but then I loved it very much. It was so interesting! I will keep all of the funghi-facts with me for a long time, I think 🙂

Surprisingly engaging. It's well written, despite lots of dense info, and also somehow very human focused. It's always interesting and always thorough. Shardlake doesn't just tell you the ways a fungus does and doesn't act similar to a human brain, he goes into the whole theory of anthropomorphizing.

Good group read #naturalitsy

Only about 70 pages in so will be finishing this wonderful book in October. I‘m lovin‘ the lichens! And (mostly) black cover! Yay first day of #scarathlon! Black. #photochallenge #BOOklovers

So glad I read this! Another fantastic #NaturaLitsy pick. Eye-opening and superbly written.

#Naturalitsy

Our last chat before saying farewell to Merlin Sheldrake. What are your final thoughts on this 🤯book?

I really enjoyed this, thanks #naturalitsy and @AllDebooks ! My favorite part was the section on lichen, and the audiobook narration was lovely. Also worth a read/listen if The Girl with All the Gifts and The Last of Us has you worked up about a fungal pandemic, honestly, as Sheldrake (that name tho!) demystifies Cordyceps and its beloved ants - so the photo is from the HBO show and in honor of spooky season and #scarathlon 👻🎃🍄

1. I‘ve had a bit of a bad reading month…too many books going at once. But I think it will be the tagged! I love fungi. I‘m loving the beautiful poetic writing and the information. 2. Reading some spooky books and getting some solo fall fishing/camping in and reading in front of the camp fire! #TwoForTuesday @TheSpineView

Informative, yet down to earth, this book was a great read! I leaned so much about lichen, and expanded upon what I read in The Mother Tree about mycorrhizal networks. Sheldrake covers truffles, “magic mushrooms” (Psilocybin), both sections I particularly enjoyed as he inserts himself into the narrative of truffle hunting and ingesting the psychedelic mushrooms for science purposes! His commentary is great and has changed the way I see the world.

This book is a master class in popular science writing. Chock full of fascinating facts, accessible, and with such an engaging writing style, I was fully engrossed. And I think mushrooms are nasty! But now I know that fungi have extraordinary potential and could make our lives better in the future if we‘re smart enough to let them. #NaturaLitsy

#Naturalitsy

Week 3 discussion thread. Post your thoughts below.

What an extraordinary amount of information this book contains!!! 🍄🤯🍄

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#Naturalitsy

Week 4 reading schedule. I will post week 3 discussion thread tomorrow.

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4✨I really enjoyed learning so much about fungi. Being a Science teacher I already knew a lot of the dense information from Botany classes, but the new Science in here was intriguing and there is a lot of material that I can provide to my students in related material that I teach. I enjoyed the audio version that the author read himself. While it was dense it was really well done. #Naturalitsy @AllDebooks I had to finish it a little early. 😅

Not my tattoo- it belongs to Zoe McClure.

I really enjoyed learning about fungi with #naturalitsy this month. I‘ve been wanting to read this for some time. The photos in the book are incredible- especially the mycoheterotrophs- plants that have evolved unable to photosynthesize and have partnerships with fungi who provide their needed nutrients, thus have brilliant red or white coloring.

So much to love in the fungus world! “We are all lichen”

I just heard something really cool in this section. 😱😍💛 I‘m excited to share when we discuss this week. @AllDebooks Plus I‘m going to mention it in my class during waste management. 🤩

#Naturalitsy

Week 2 discussion thread🍄⚡️🍄

FYI - This article is fascinating, too from The Marginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/13/mushrooms-sound-waves/

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#Naturalitsy September #buddyread

This is my 3rd reading of this magnificent book. One of my favourites, if you couldn't tell. 🍄🍂🍄

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#Naturalitsy

Week 3 reading schedule. Discussion thread for week 2 will be posted tomorrow 🍄🍂🍄

The things I didn‘t expect in a book on fungi…
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#Naturalitsy

Our discussion thread for week 1 is open. How much content was there in those 50 pages? 🍄🤯🍄
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Finished the first week of this today #NaturaLitsy and I‘m enjoying it so far. I‘m listening and following along because the author is reading it himself. I love when I can hear the natural tone the author intended. It is beautiful. It‘s a lot of front loading, but interesting. I already found material I can use in my classroom which is a big reason I wanted to join in this #BuddyRead. 🥰💛 @AllDebooks

Still keeping on track for this #NaturaLitsy September read. Shocking!
I actually have more time to read because I‘ve been sick 🤧 which the tests say are NOT COVID but I‘m pretty miserable. I‘m blaming kindergarten germs my youngest brought home 🦠

#Naturalitsy

Into week 2 of our #buddyread already 🍄🍂🍄

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I will post our discussion thread for week 1 tomorrow.

Crazy, crazy week irl. Feeling this title ⬆️ Getting 4 teens sorted for return to school and college is not my idea of fun!! #frazzled

I have a day to myself tomorrow after bombing around everywhere.
Really excited for a quiet day relaxing & catching up in Litsyland. 😅🥵

Started the September #NaturaLitsy buddy read today! LOVING it already 🍄

“Fungi make up one of life‘s kingdoms—as broad and busy a category as ‘animals‘ or ‘plants.‘ Microscopic yeasts are fungi, as are the sprawling networks of honey fungi, or Armillaria, which are among the largest organisms in the world.”

There‘s a great video (link below) on the Armillaria in Malheur National Forest. Estimated at over 2000 years old, it weighs at least 7500 tons, maybe up to 35000 tons (more than 200 gray whales).

#NaturaLitsy

Ok, I‘ve begun. #naturalitsy

Reposting for @alldebooks
We start with our next #buddyread today. Here‘s a reminder of the reading schedule. The discussion posts will be on a Saturday. The first one will be on the 9th of September.
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