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“I watched so intently-concentrated so hard-that there was no sofa, and no screen, no chime from the click, no traffic outside, no whine from the fridge or thump from the central heating. And it became real. So real. So real. So real. So real. So real. - The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean
Sym is in love with a man who lives inside her head, based on Titus Oates who died on the famous expedition to Anarctica. She talks to him, and he is her closest confidante.
The plot begins when her uncle offers to take her to Anarctica, the very place her Titus died many years ago. At first, Sym is delighted and in love with the vast white land, but things take a deadly turn when Uncle Victor becomes convinced that Anarctica holds the opening to the center of the universe. Suddenly Sym finds herself a part of Victor's dangerous plan to find the opening, lost in a white expansion. Out there in the cold and white, she's left to deal with the fear that her uncle is mad and maybe even herself.
This is one of my favorite books. It's amazing. ”
Reader wrote this review Monday, June 8 2009.
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