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Hidden Kingdom: The Surprising Story of Fungi and Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies by Keith Seifert
lilypad537's review
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
foxreading's review
5.0
Due back to library
Edit: got it again and finished it. Enjoyable writing style, lots of other things I want to learn about now, especially endophytic fungi…
Edit: got it again and finished it. Enjoyable writing style, lots of other things I want to learn about now, especially endophytic fungi…
deathbotly's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting look into local and farflung fungi; it goes for a broad overview of different types, different behaviours and the benefits/problems they bring to their respective ecosystems. I learnt some interesting new facts about the drama of fungal endophytes. Definitely be prepared to to clean before you start the household chapter.
My complaint, smallish, is that several times the book brings up what seems like a very interesting fungi-related thing for a sentence (the Belgian baker starter dough library, for example), then briskly moves on to a new mycotoxin while you’re going “wait, the what?” Which can be unsatisfying.
My complaint, smallish, is that several times the book brings up what seems like a very interesting fungi-related thing for a sentence (the Belgian baker starter dough library, for example), then briskly moves on to a new mycotoxin while you’re going “wait, the what?” Which can be unsatisfying.