Matt K started reading How To Take Over The World by Ryan North
A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true potential of today’s …
Found upstate at inquiring minds bookstore
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Matt K started reading Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Firewalkers Are Brave. Firewalkers Are Resourceful. Firewalkers Are Expendable.
The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not …
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 psychology book written …
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Matt K quoted In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend
From ecology to fermentation, in pop culture and in medicine―mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s …
The New York Mycological Society is perhaps the most famous, founded by avant-garde composer John Cage, emerging in its current form in 1962, out of a class he was teaching at The New School in Manhattan.
— In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend (Page 101)
I did not expect to see John Cage here!
Matt K quoted In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend
From ecology to fermentation, in pop culture and in medicine―mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s …
One especially notable figure who dealt with Massee was none other than Beatrix Potter. The author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is less well known for her significant contributions as a mycologist and nature illustrator. Prior to her authorial fame, Potter spent a great deal of time in Kew's herbarium, producing hundreds of gorgeous illustrations of fungi, among other organisms, even presenting a paper, "On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae," to the Linnaean Society in 1897; at the time, women were all but forbidden from pursuing a proper scientific education, and were prohibited from scientific societies, so her uncle delivered the paper in her stead.
— In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend (Page 72 - 73)
Beatrix potter, an early mycologist!
Matt K replied to Sally Strange's status
@SallyStrange oh I just got this one!
Matt K finished reading James: A Novel by Percival Everett
James: A Novel by Percival Everett
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife …
Matt K reviewed James: A Novel by Percival Everett
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Delivered in spades
4 stars
It’s a great concept and handled so well. This book dances around what’s hidden beneath the surface of Huckleberry Finn - the humanity and dehumanization of black Americans.
It’s still an adventure story and it moves fast and is an easy read, but delivers a look under the surface of every possible interaction. Some of it felt very magical and there’s a scene in an engine room that feels like the best parts of Catch-22.
Very happy for all the recommendations that led me to this book.
Matt K started reading In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend
From ecology to fermentation, in pop culture and in medicine―mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s …
Found in Idler Books, the book shop on the way to hunter mountain. Near a bunch of witchy stuff presumably because mushrooms are witchy.
Matt K finished reading The Angel Maker by Alex North
Matt K commented on The Angel Maker by Alex North
The roses from the angels, the house that can’t be fixed. Lotta poetry made concrete here.
Matt K reviewed James: A Novel by Percival Everett
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Brilliant inversion
5 stars
This is such a fast fun read of great depth
Matt K started reading The Angel Maker by Alex North
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Matt K replied to Sally Strange's status
@SallyStrange oh I really enjoyed this weird world and the fierce folk in it. Hope you like it too!
Matt K finished reading Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
Thirteen short stories from Naomi Novik including:
- A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the …
What a wonderful collection of dreams