pickDid you know that mushrooms are the sex organs of fungus? I had no idea, until I listened to an episode of the podcast, Ghoulish, where Nicholas Kaufmann revealed that his editor rejected a book of his but gave him a mycological book called The Entangled Life from which he wrote this fungus packed apocalyptic horror book that starts in a small New York town. He did a great job of balancing the coloring in the people of the small town and the 👇🏼
Reggie fungal horror. All the spores for this one. 2y
LeahBergen You‘re killing me! Great review. 🤣🤣 2y
Reggie @LeahBergen lol, thanks! 😋🍄 2y
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batsy "All the spores" ?? (but also, eww!) 2y
Reggie @batsy he really packed in the mycology and had me going down some rabbit holes. Did you know that millions of years ago that there were these things called prototaxites that could be 1 meter wide and 8 meters high? At the time they were the largest land dwelling organism and they were fungi. I think I‘m gonna read that Entangled Life book. 2y
Bookzombie Great review! That other book does sound interesting. 🍄 2y
Centique I just read a Neil Gaiman short story that features Mushroom People. Synchronicity! But also isn‘t this the second fungal horror book you‘ve read this year? I‘m thinking it‘s the #yearoflivingfungally![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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How the Marquis Got His Coat Backbatsy @Reggie I did not know that! That is both awesome and pretty scary. I have a bit of #sporeaphobia maybe 😅 Entangled Life sounds great—hadn't heard of it before but just saw a positive review of it on Litsy too, so that's added to the TBR. 2y
Avanders Speaking of … things … have you readMexican Gothic 2y
Mexican GothicLindy I‘m glad you mentioned you‘re inclined to read Entangled Life. I think you will love it! 2y
Reggie @Avanders lol, I have and all that mushroom goodness. 2y
Reggie @Lindy Me too. I just got it yesterday. 2y
Avanders @Reggie 😁 I loved it 😄 2y
Lindy @Reggie 😁🍄👍 2y