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Cover of Mia Tsai’s The Memory Hunters

Who has the right to history?

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai

September 1, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

The Memory Hunters fulfills the “red” square for CBR17 Bingo. I really enjoyed Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine, and was very excited to try The Memory Hunters, which is a completely new world and setting. It is set in a type of near future where climate change has resulted in much of the coast as we know it being devastated and swallowed by the ocean and storms, and fungi being used as a way to collect and remember history. It opens when Kiana Strade, a memory […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #history, cbr17bingo, colonialism, consecrated, fungal fantasy, fungi, memory hunters, mia Tsai, queer, Religion, sapphic

LB's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #history, cbr17bingo, colonialism, consecrated, fungal fantasy, fungi, memory hunters, mia Tsai, queer, Religion, sapphic ·
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They put the fun in fungi

Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari

September 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not even a fan of fungi (though occasionally I do like a little on a pizza with “a lot” on it) and think this is one of the best books I have read on the subject of fungi. At first, I was thinking, “wait, fungi? How dull.” And yet I just said I have read other books on the subject. Sure, but none were “guidebooks” (which this book looked like at first) but books where fungi was in the story or the graphic novel series […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: earth, fungi, Maria Gianferrari, Science & Nature

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:654 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: earth, fungi, Maria Gianferrari, Science & Nature ·
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Entangled but also Incomplete

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

August 29, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 17: The Wilds I’ll be honest: I was planning to use Entangled Life for the ‘flora’ square except that the author pointed out that fungi and some related things are not actually plants exactly; they are essentially their own thing. That’s actually a major part of the book, just how diverse fungi, lichens, and yeasts are. Anyways, a significant amount of the book is about fungi in their natural habitats (ie- outdoors) and just how little is known, and just how much could be […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Entangled Life, fungi, lichens, Merlin Sheldrake, mushrooms, research, science, yeasts

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:74 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Entangled Life, fungi, lichens, Merlin Sheldrake, mushrooms, research, science, yeasts ·
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We owe fungi a lot, and you owe it to yourself to read this book

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

March 6, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 1 Comment

This is a book about fungus. If you’re thinking “Huh, fungi are weird and I like learning new things,” you should pick up this book immediately. If you’re thinking “Ew, no. Mushrooms are gross,” you should pick up this book immediately because fungi (apparently!) are so much more than just mushrooms (which I learned are just the fruiting bodies of some fungi). In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake, which may be the greatest name ever, begins by walking the reader through the basics of what fungi are […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #botany, ecology, Entangled Life, fungi, fungus, Merlin Sheldrake, mushroom, truffles

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #botany, ecology, Entangled Life, fungi, fungus, Merlin Sheldrake, mushroom, truffles ·
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