While first-time novelist Marsh draws heavily on standard paranormal tropes (the enigmatic love interest, for example), her evocative setting, memorable characters, and use of obscure folkloric elements all contribute to the novel’s strong sense of place. With the handsome, mysterious Fynn and cantankerous local witch, Morag, as her only allies, she sets forth to discover the truth about what dwells in the ocean. All she wants is to travel far from the island, but when people from her village start to disappear-just as an amnesic and gravely wounded young man washes up on shore-Bridey realizes that she may be the only person willing to fight whatever is preying on her friends and family. Bridey Corkill has avoided the sea ever since something lured her grandfather into its depths, and no one would believe her tales of the supernatural. 360 reviews Witch’s apprentice Bridey Corkill has hated the ocean ever since she watched her granddad dive in and drown with a smile on his face. In this atmospheric historical fantasy, set in 1913 on the Isle of Man, a young woman has to confront her fear of the ocean in order to deal with the mythological monsters terrorizing her community. Preview Fear the Drowning Deepby Sarah Glenn Marsh Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh(Goodreads Author) 3.61
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Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face." "But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. "It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." When I first read this book in the fruitless years of my youth I was excited, overwhelmed and a blank slate (as Dorian is, upon his first encounter with Lord Henry) easily molded, persuaded, influenced, etc.Ĭertain Wildisms (Wildeisms?) would take my breath away. In no great hurry saul leiter6/10/2023 When I was much younger (like early teens), I really loved conflict photography and true documentary photographers. I buy a lot of photography books, go to a lot of exhibitions and find it a constant source of inspiration. TL: I’ve always been into photography as a fan. I thought it might be something quick and fun and very popular on Vimeo.ĮB: What is your own relationship to photography (the ones you like, the ones you do…)? I didn’t realize it would be a multi-year, deeply personal project. So I thought I would do something about that. There was very little to read about him online at the time and almost no video. I had Early Color and was just in love with it. We find in Tomas Leach a modest irony that echoes that of Saul Leiter.Įmmanuel Bacquet: How did you come up with this project dedicated to this legendary photographer? It is sometimes difficult to grasp the human chemistry that informs a meeting between a director and his subject: empathy, admiration, mistrust, or all at once.Īnother lead, already mooted in our pages by Kimmo Koskela about Minkkinnen, could be guessed from this interview: a certain shared sense of humour. 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In 1990, The Stand was reprinted as a Complete and Uncut Edition. The book was difficult for him to write because of the large number of characters and storylines. King started writing the story in February 1975, seeking to create an epic in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. 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