I read The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing primarily because it is a rare academic book was also supposed to appeal to commercial audiences. This is a gap I aim to bridge in my own writing, but it is rarely done! And that’s because the tone of academic writing is typically not entertaining. So, I was curious about how and if this author was able to pull it off. And, I think this author was kind of able to pull it off, but mostly this still felt like a mostly academic book, I think. The author uses theoretical language that I think will be lost to most audiences and then doesn’t get too complicated in explaining it (because of popular audiences), but then also (usually) doesn’t explain it in depth for popular audiences either. So in the end, I wanted more explanations of, for example, slippery contact zones, or whatever theoretical jargon was on the page. In the end, I think this book will mostly still just appeal to scientists and academics and also some popular audiences who have some background in these subjects and possibly also armchair mushroom enthusiasts. I hope there are a lot of armchair mushroom enthusiasts out there.