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

I have to admit that until reading this book, I had not thought about mushrooms or fungi too much in a non-gastronomical sense. As a child, I sometimes went mushroom picking in the forest with my family and friends but even on those occasions, I saw them as the means to a very delicious dinner, as opposed to stopping to think about why they grow in the places they do or why some might be harder to find or more precious than others. Reading Entangled Life, I found myself back in those forests – but this time accompanied by an expert biologist pointing out the things I would not have even known to look for.