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A review by ofbooksandtrees
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.
DNF July 2024 57%
This one makes me sad but it’s time to admit defeat.
Initially I did like it. There was something so soothing about the audio and I was excited to learn more about moss, but the further I got in the more I realised I wasn’t retaining any of the information.
A lot of the mosses talked about don’t have English names so most of the time I had no idea what kind of moss the author was even talking about. Maybe if I’d read a physical copy, I could have looked up the names, but with the audio I wouldn’t know how to spell them and I also didn’t want to constantly hit pause to look up things as that would very much take away from the audio experience.
Idk, maybe I’ll get a physical copy some day but for now I’ve decided to let Gathering Moss go.
This one makes me sad but it’s time to admit defeat.
Initially I did like it. There was something so soothing about the audio and I was excited to learn more about moss, but the further I got in the more I realised I wasn’t retaining any of the information.
A lot of the mosses talked about don’t have English names so most of the time I had no idea what kind of moss the author was even talking about. Maybe if I’d read a physical copy, I could have looked up the names, but with the audio I wouldn’t know how to spell them and I also didn’t want to constantly hit pause to look up things as that would very much take away from the audio experience.
Idk, maybe I’ll get a physical copy some day but for now I’ve decided to let Gathering Moss go.