[Reading] A Flat Place - Noreen Masud

[white_hart]

I bought this in the nice indie bookshop in Norwich, because I love flat places, and also because I remember Masud when she was one of our DPhil students. In fact, A Flat Place is less a landscape book and more an exploration of trauma and recovery using Masud's affinity for flat landscapes as a focus. I enjoyed it, and found it quite thought-provoking, but it also felt really awkward reading a deeply personal memoir written by someone you still feel the lingering remains of a duty of care towards. And I would still like to read a book which is just an appreciation of the wonder of a wide-open space.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I keep reading this as “A flat pack” and thinking it’s going to be about IKEA.

[white_hart]

It is definitely not about IKEA.

[mountainkiss]

Disappointing.

[lokifan]

Oh, lovely :) Which bookshop in Norwich? I know a couple but I mostly go to the kids' one, especially since my friends who I visit in Norwich have a little one.

it also felt really awkward reading a deeply personal memoir written by someone you still feel the lingering remains of a duty of care towards.

Ooh, yeah!

[white_hart]

The Book Hive - it's a lovely shop and I am incapable of visiting it without picking up at least one interesting-looking book.