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mycorrhiza

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Francis Spufford, Francis Spufford: Cahokia Jazz (Hardcover, 2024, Scribner)
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Philip Goff: Why? the Purpose of the Universe (Hardcover, 2023, Oxford University Press)
Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback, 1982, L&OD Key Porter)

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Bruce Sterling: Mirrorshades (Hardcover, 1986, Arbor House Pub Co)
Shelly Mazzanoble: How to Dungeon Master Parenting (2024, University of Iowa Press)

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Ed Yong: I Contain Multitudes (EBook, 2016, Ecco)
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Fractal Prince (Paperback, 2013, Gollancz)
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Quantum Thief (2010, Gollancz)

2025 Reading Goal

66% complete! mycorrhiza has read 8 of 12 books.

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reviewed I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

Ed Yong: I Contain Multitudes (EBook, 2016, Ecco)

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of …

The science of the twenty-teens

A fun and approachable pop-science read. The last bit about designer probiotics feels dated, but I’m probably just oversensitive to things that sound like startup pitches from that era, due to personal experiences. But that doesn’t spoil the book so much as it situates it in a specific moment.

started reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Jean le Flambeur, #1)

Hannu Rajaniemi: The Quantum Thief (2010, Gollancz)

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his …

I've never been able to start reading a book the same day it was recommended to me, but I just finished something else and the library had this.

commented on Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life (2020)

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting …

Ok, I'm primed by just having read it, but Sheldrake doesn't draw a comparison between hyphae and Lem's ocean in Solaris I'm gonna scream.