But with the darkness comes something else. With miles of ice and sea around them, there is nothing in the bleak landscape as winter approaches and the sun disappears. As two of the expedition members have to withdraw, Jack, Gus and Archie, together with a pack of huskies, set up a routine to study and take readings of the arctic landscape. The clash in class and personality is inevitable but a fragile friendship forms between the men as they venture into the stark and cold territory beyond Norway. He answers an advertisement to join a scientific expedition to the Arctic and finds himself on a boat with three Oxbridge-educated, wealthy young men. Jack is a middle class young man in his late twenties who dreams of being a physicist but is working in a job he hates due to the lack of funds. Paver sets her tale in the 30s, which I thought was a stroke of genius as it instantly removes you from the familiar but is close enough that you don’t feel you’re wading into historical fantasy. And as many of you have said this was a very creepy read and it’s subtitled A Ghost Story, I gave myself the challenge of reading this and not just during day time.Īnd it is a very creepy story. I don’t normally read scary stories because I’m afraid of horror but I’ve realised I don’t actually scare easily. As the year wanes and the darkness draws closer, I thought it was a suitable read for the season. I’ll probably have to tell the others at some point, but not yet.Dark Matter by Michelle Paver came to my attention earlier this year with lots of very good reviews and a big dose of creepiness. Now that I do – or at least have a working hypothesis – I can deal with it. I was frightened because I didn’t understand what I saw. Three days without incident, and I’m feeling a little better. I thought it would have rotted, but of course it’s been too cold.
To make myself feel less of a coward, I went to the bear post and cut down Algie’s ‘flag’: that dead fulmar which h. And to be honest, I couldn’t bring myself to stay out there for long.
Not in the dark, with everything covered in snow. That gave me courage, so I took him with me to look over the beach and the mining ruins for clues. He tried to dig a hole under the Stevenson screen. No problems yesterday doing the readings. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
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