Entangled Life

This book is a brilliant choice if you want to pick up non-fiction that still feels fun. It's accessible, full on interesting facts and written in a pleasant way by a person who sounds cool.

Some people are incredibly odd in a great way. You know, like the people you randomly meet and then, you don't even know how, end up listening to blabbering about some totally unexpected topic AND they make you interested, even though you have no idea you could be.
This is what it feels like reading the writing of Merlin Sheldrake.
This book isn't dry at all, he has a lot of weird charisma about him.

I expected this book to be mainly about mushrooms that humans consume, and a bunch of it was. From truffle hunting to magic mushrooms, yeast that makes bread and alcohol.
But also a bunch of ways in which fungi communicate, breed, exist with other plants and animals. Ways in which they can be used to make compostable packaging and cure bees.
In that way, it felt almost short. I wanted to know more, I wanted to hear more from this person and his odd obsession with running around in a jungle. Making cider in a dorm room.

So while it was a lot of scientific information, it never felt too much or suffocating. It kept me interested and a lot of it was unexpected. This is the enjoyable way to learn. I have already recommended it to multiple people in my life and I will continue to do so.