pickA woman is stabbed to death in a packed Newcastle Metro carriage in which Joe Ashworth and his daughter were also passengers.
I couldn't work out how or why mainly because I was totally fixated on the wrong person as my suspect. And I thought I was being so clever in avoiding red herrings.
pickI completely understand why this was nominated for the women‘s prize for non-fiction. Masud weaves her stories of life searching the countryside in England with her memories from her traumatic childhood in Pakistan.
pickThis was a challenging read about complex trauma. How the author demonstrates her trauma into her teachings and education into her past life is inspiring and interesting. Not everyone with trauma shares the same experiences so having a new perspective is greatly beneficial!
pickDiagnosed with complex PTSD, Masud uses the flat places she visits as a way to deal with that. The flat paces are places of conflict and colonialism. She visits Morecambe Bay, Orford Ness and the Orkney islands and each trip represents a different challenge
I loved her description of the different places that she visited and at times I felt that I was visiting these places along with her
so-soUltimately, this book didn‘t work for me. While it has some compelling content and some of the writing is beautiful, it‘s written in a stream of consciousness type way that felt chunked together to me. Also, the author tended toward the melodramatic at times, which I never like. And the cover is just awful. It looks like a PowerPoint template. If not for the Women‘s Prize, I likely would have bailed.
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Build yourself a boat by Camonghne Felix
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I don't want ever to be wholly relaxed, wholly at home, in a world of flowing fresh water built on the parched pain of others. The world itches, and so it should.
