pickI enjoyed it well enough, but I miss when Fortey mostly wrote about palaeontology. Or maybe I miss when he had a stricter editor. I don't know. I was much less hooked on this than his earlier work, anyway.
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pickI enjoyed it well enough, but I miss when Fortey mostly wrote about palaeontology. Or maybe I miss when he had a stricter editor. I don't know. I was much less hooked on this than his earlier work, anyway.
Despite/because of the personal turmoil (sick rabbit, wife with broken ankle & NHS shenanigans about who will treat it, anxiety flareup) I'm going all-out trying to get a blackout on #BookSpinBingo, ideally before the end of February, or if not, before the new card is announced at least. So this morning I started the day in bed reading about fungi.
My Oura Ring agrees it's a good idea! I don't usually get that amount of restorative time in a DAY.
It‘s finally Christmas Eve here on the west coast of the USA and I am settling in to open my #jolabokaflodswap package-
SQUEEEE!! Thank you, Shannon, I am so looking forward to reading this! Thank you for the book and the yummy Dove chocolates - I love them both!
Thank you Chelle for organizing this again. Merry Christmas everyone!
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.
#FramedinSeptember #ArtReadathon #StrayaSeptember2 #Shaketember #LitsyCrafters
https://youtu.be/dtpAfK4XS4I
pickThis 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.
panThis book force feeds academic theories with little evidence beyond the authors‘ opinions. I wanted a close look at the Matsutake mushroom, instead I got many long theory papers without proper citations.
Read for a biased look at the social & cultural world of Matsutake & for even more bias around the science. Some basic mushroom biology is included
1/5 Skim this book if you want to learn about Matsutake mushrooms; read for academic theory
so-soIt'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?!
