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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I was expecting more information about queerness in nature but this is more of a memoir about the author, who is a mycologist, so there is some great facts about animals, nature, and fungi but I wish I had looked more into what I was going to be reading.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Dysphoria
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
This book was not at all what I expected and that’s part of it’s magic, I think. Kaishian’s meditations on (queer) ecology and indigeneity are beautifully interwoven with personal reflection on navigating the world as a queer person and experiencing trauma as a child. I learned so much and (more importantly) I feel refreshed and inspired having finished it, which is not always the case for books about the environment.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Sexual assault
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
I love the overall concept and message of this book and think there's is so much I'm going to take away from it. I had never really connected nature to queerness, but now I 10000% will. The format of the book was interesting, part nature nonfiction plus memoir. The emphasis on community is also really great.
I'm honestly not even sure how to verbalize this or explain it, but it just wasn't quite five stars for me 🤷♀️ Maybe it was the narrator or the format or something? Idk I just know that I found myself with this one spacing out and losing interest more than I usually do. I'll definitely be recommending it to a few particular friends though!
I'm honestly not even sure how to verbalize this or explain it, but it just wasn't quite five stars for me 🤷♀️ Maybe it was the narrator or the format or something? Idk I just know that I found myself with this one spacing out and losing interest more than I usually do. I'll definitely be recommending it to a few particular friends though!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Dysphoria
Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry
Minor: Slavery, Toxic relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
i loves me some natural history! and this being queer nature has me in rapture. really important and interesting information presented in a very accessible manner. kudos!
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Warm, fun, and full of wonder.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault
I was fairly certain that I'd love this book and boy was I right! In the vein of Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches. The world can only benefit from a queering of science and nature. I'd love a hard copy of this to reread but I will wait for the paperback release.
"Recounting the broad strokes of any genocide is like describing the ocean as a bowl of water: the real depth and dimension of the atrocities is in the specifics."
"There on the sheet are the pale ghosts of the mycena. I would've remembered them forever anyway, but now they can haunt me a little more vividly."
"Recounting the broad strokes of any genocide is like describing the ocean as a bowl of water: the real depth and dimension of the atrocities is in the specifics."
"There on the sheet are the pale ghosts of the mycena. I would've remembered them forever anyway, but now they can haunt me a little more vividly."