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I'm just going to leave this here for all my fellow dendrophiles x

Saw this in Barnes and Noble. Skimmed through and decided this is my next read to break up monotony between books in the series I‘m reading.
“The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature‘s cycle of death and rebirth”
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This is not the kind of book I would normally pick up to read, but it was on one of the cottage core book lists so I thought I would give it a go, and I‘m so glad I did.

Yesterday the two big kids went riding in the hills and I got to see the wild rabbits for the first time. Yea I know they are feral animals but look at that cute bunny butt

Morning rainbow to greet me getting out of bed…storms back on its way in❤️

The sun is up and so am I. Morning all.

To start tomorrow:)

Reading about mushrooms at the beach

I‘ve read several memoirs by women who‘ve discovered that learning about birds was their pathway out of grief. Here, it‘s fungi. Long Litt Woon emigrated to Norway from Malaysia to marry. When her husband died suddenly, she needed something new that would connect her to her adopted country. Enter the nerdy mushroom enthusiasts. Litt Woon‘s inner journey takes a backstage to her discovery of the world of fungi. #translation by Barbara Haveland.

As a general rule, all mushrooms, including those from the supermarket, should be properly cooked. There are those who might protest & point to all the store-bought mushrooms they‘ve eaten raw in salads since the 70s & 80s, but the fact is that even store-bought varieties contain phenylhydrazine derivatives, which are potentially carcinogenic, but the carcinogens are destroyed when subjected to heat.

In France it used to be possible to take one‘s mushrooms to the pharmacy, because training in the identification & uses of fungi was part of a pharmacist‘s education. Sadly this is no longer the case. Nowadays, when Frenchmen take their finds to the pharmacy, they are advised to throw them all away.

Even Carl von Linné (1707-78)—known as the father of modern taxonomy—struggled with fungi. In the Linnaean system they ended up in a subcategory of the animal kingdom entitled “Chaos.” It was as if the usual laws of nature did not apply to them. Since then, however, it has been established that fungi belong to neither the plant kingdom nor the animal kingdom: they form their own kingdom. The fungi kingdom.

With under 12 hours to spare, I just completed the last of my 3 goals for the #JubilantJuly #readathon ! Yay!!

🌀 read 800 pages —- CHECK

🌀 read a poetry book —- CHECK

🌀 read a NF book —- CHECK

I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! It would have been 5 for me, but I think it went on a chapter or 2 longer than I‘d have preferred. It was a solid story, though, and I found it really interesting.

🌀 The pic is from this morning‘s walk. :)

Currently reading the tagged book as my NF choice to meet my #JubilantJuly #readathon goals. I‘m on track with my page count goal at 750/800 pages so far. Yay!!

I‘m finding myself doing a lot of re-Reading but miss Litsy truth be told so even though it‘s a ramble... I‘m trying to read this. I‘m still Scandinavian obsessed with a Norwegian bent, broken arm notwithstanding so i was hoping to like this memoir / forest mushroom field guide but I‘m finding the narrator annoying and either her style or the translation, stilted (she‘s a Malaysian writing in Norwegian translated to English though so?). Ah well!

Taking a departure from my normal reading fare for this weekend. After the unexpected death of her husband, Long Litt Woon found solace and meaning in her life through mushroom hunting. Mushrooms are absolutely fascinating and I‘m enjoying reading about the very passionate world of mycologists.
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What are you reading this weekend?