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This is right up there with Braiding Sweetgrass for my favorite nonfiction book ever. I'm recommending this book to literally everybody, but especially my fellow queerdos. This book is a gift.
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I wanted it to be better than it was.
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I am absolutely in love with this book. Such beautiful perspectives and insights about nature and all the interconnected creatures of this world.
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Not being for me does not innately mean a book is bad, so if there is someone out there who knows absolutely nothing about either natural history or queer theory and wants to, they might enjoy this. The actual information, when it's there, is fine, but very, very basic. Most of the book's fun facts and mini biographies are things anyone with the slightest interest in the subject matter would already know, and the queer theory is similarly simple and childish, tumblr-blog 101 stuff. The personal essay intertwined with the topic of scientific interest is a hard balance to strike, and this is maybe 90% personal blathering that simply isn't good or interesting. It's overripe and half-baked. Respect other ways of being, but anthropomorphize everything. Criticize western colonialist capitalism in the flattest terms while posing everything else as utopian. I don't even disagree with much of what she says, but the sugary swill that surrounds it makes for a smothering experience. Nature is very queer! What if one explored that instead of just dubbing everything one likes queer and working backwards from there, though? The silly blandness takes a lot from the substance is all.
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So grateful to a younger generation of scientists and others who are finding and naming different ways to see the world. Down with binary vision and up with a rainbow of inclusive diversity where no one and nothing is excluded. Thank you, Patricia, for bringing me into the fold.
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This was the perfect book to listen to while driving to a vacation in the woods because it gave me a new perspective on the mushrooms and other creatures I looked at while away. I borrowed this book from the library but I think I need to find my own copy. Fungal personhood was one of my favorite chapters.