And then play again to see what other paths you could have taken along the way! It all started when… Puzzles will require some thought to come up with the correct answer before you can move forward.Įndings will be both good and bad, depending on choices you’ve made along the way.įollow the instructions on that page to continue through the game. Some tips about each option you will be presented:Ĭhoices will impact your path forward in the story, and not all choices will lead you and your friends forward in safety. No matter what your choices are, a story and some puzzles are in your future.Īs you make your way through the story, each page will present you with a small segment of the story, and will either contain following that a choice, a puzzle, or an ending. If you should not make it to the end successfully, you will be brought back to the beginning, where you can start again and make another attempt. At some of the endings, you meet with success in your mission, while at others, you are not so lucky. Anyone interested in these subjects will enjoy this book as much as I did.This online adventure is a blend of choose your own adventure and puzzles, with a wide variety of endings to the story. It was great to see how Norway mushrooming culture was similar and different from that of the United States culture, while cheering for the author as she struggled to accept and embrace her new life. “ The Way Through the Woods is a personal view of the world of mushrooming though the eyes of an anthropologist who took up mushrooming to move forward through grief after the sudden death of her husband. Like Sound of a Wild Snail Eating and H is for Hawk, her gorgeous, intimate encounter with unfamiliar species teaches us that observing nature carefully is both inspiring and healing.” -Juli Berwald, author of Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone Woon takes us foraging not just through the fascinating world of fungi but also through her personal grief. “Like mushrooms themselves, The Way Through the Woods is surprising, comforting, and completely engrossing. Long’s is as good as any.” - The New York Times How do you go on living when the person you loved so much-perhaps the person you loved best in the world-is gone? Everyone must find her own answer. At its center, this book poses a familiar, awful existential question.
intersperses the story of her mushroom education with details of her emotional journey, each informing the other. Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature that we forgot how sad she (and we) are. Seeing Long’s capacity for wonder and even contentment in the midst of her sadness feels like seeing tiny shoots of grass peeking from the ash in a landscape stripped bare by fire. Her memoir. What she found in the woods, and expresses with such tender joy in this heartfelt memoir, was nothing less than salvation.” -Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia and Microbia “In her search for new meaning in life after the death of her husband, Long Litt Woon undertook the study of mushrooms.
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From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut delectable morels, prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night.Īlong the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms-resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature’s cycle of death and rebirth. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner’s course on mushrooming-a course the two of them had planned to take together-and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss.
Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.”- The New York Times
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing-hunting for mushrooms.
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