![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the son of Oedipus, Polynices also arrives and requests him to accompany him which Oedipus rejects. As he notices the harassment, Theseus intervenes to bring back his daughters. ![]() Creon becomes incensed and orders his abduction failure of which prompts him to bring his daughters to take him to Thebes. When King Theseus arrives, he politely inquires Oedipus about his desire to which he appeals him to permit him to live in Athens at the expanse of enraging his sons. As the mandatory ruling duo of Polynices and Creon know this, they are rushing to claim Oedipus to win peace, while Oedipus, like always, stays adamant to extend any assistance to his sons. ![]() The oracle concludes that if Oedipus is buried in his city, it would bring peace with it. She reveals that both of her sons, Eteocles and Polynices, are fighting over the right to rule the city. The Chorus, then, emerges, interviewing Oedipus about his identity when Ismene, his second daughter, arrives after having news from Apollo. He also informs Antigone that the god had prophesied his death in his land. When a local Athenian sees them, Oedipus asks him to carry his message to Theseus, the incumbent king, to meet him. They mistakenly stand for a while on the spot considered holy with its association with Eumenides, the goddess. ![]() The story starts with the arrival of Oedipus in Athens with his daughter, Antigone. ![]()
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![]() This book will chew you up and spit you out and it’s only the first in the series. Like I said before, this not your run of the mill fluffy romance. Both are tempting to him for different reasons, reasons that make Niko hate himself more than anyone else. One represents light to Niko, the other dark. Then there is Vasili the Prince who shows Niko nothing but harsh words and even harsher punishments. There’s Julian the guard who shows Niko kindness and understanding. 70% into the book and I still couldn’t figure out who the hell the real love interests were. Betrayal and secrets are all Niko finds within the walls. From a blacksmiths son to a soldier of war, he finds himself within the palace after basically being kidnapped by the Prince. The entirety of the book is from his POV. ![]() It’s like a drug You know its going to lead you down a dark path but you can’t help but keep coming back to it. ![]() ![]() I think I do, and then I’m proved wrong again and again. I never know whats coming around the next corner. It pulls you in and twists your thoughts right along with your heart. Ariana Nash knows how to write a dark fantasy romance. ![]() ![]() The heartbreaking but seemingly straightforward death of his father's African-American nurse, Viola Turner, has fractured Penn's family and turned Dr. ![]() ![]() Southern prosecutor Penn Cage is caught in the darkest maelstrom of his life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story he began in his smashing New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning with this highly anticipated second volume in an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Reprint edition (September 13, 2016). ![]() ![]() ![]() If anything, it might be a tad too ambitious but it’s also just incredibly satisfying, heartwarming & fun. It’s Back to the Future meets Spider-Man: No Way Home with all the humor & heart of the former and action and surprises of the latter. The movie breaks incredible new ground in superhero cinema & honors DC lore of years past. ![]() ![]() Umberto Gonzales: BELIEVE THE HYPE! Christopher Nolan movies aside, #TheFlashMovie is the GREATEST DC movie of the last 30 years that belongs in the same conversation as SUPERMAN 78 and BATMAN 89. The dynamic of two Barry Allen’s is crazy well done.Įmotions hit me intensely hard, solid surprises, and it got me wanting to watch again and really eager to see how they follow it. #CinemaConīrandon Davis: Damn, #TheFlash is good! It’s super inventive both visually and in concept. A genuinely superb superhero movie – one of the best in a long time! Very, very satisfying. It’s one of the better multiverse movies out there. Still, it’s entertaining and energetic, I look forward to seeing the final version.ĭaniel Howat: #TheFlash is massively entertaining! Extraordinarily funny, but still has solid emotional stakes. But it’s also bloated at times and jam-packed with Easter eggs. It has strong performances and hits the emotional beats on the head. Therese Lacson: I was surprised by #TheFlashMovie and how ambitious it was. Here’s a sampling of journalist reactions via the twitter: THR has theater owners reax, and they are very bullish on the movie. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left-and then they’ll destroy each other.Īs Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. ![]() When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Booksmart by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. “Brilliant, hilarious, and oh-so-romantic.” - BuzzFeed ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also started listening to another awesome Warhammer 40,000 novel this week with the second book in The Twice-Dead King series, Reign, by Nate Crowley. The Twice-Dead King: Reign by Nate Crowley (Audiobook) I am only a little bit in this book at the moment but I having fun with it so far. The Burning Road brings back Sidebottom’s main protagonist and places him in the middle of a brutal slave rebellion on Sicily. I just started reading this cool new novel from one of my favourite Roman historical fiction authors, Harry Sidebottom. The Burning Road by Harry Sidebottom (Trade Paperback) Essentially you have to answer three questions (the Three Ws): WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words, where bloggers share the books that they’ve recently finished, what they are currently reading and what books they are planning to read next. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” Traveling the World I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. It was during this period that, still a teenager, he wrote “ The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” a free-verse poem that ran in the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine and garnered him acclaim. Upon graduating in 1920, he traveled to Mexico to live with his father for a year. He would later write that he was influenced at a young age by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman and Paul Laurence Dunbar. In his Ohio high school, he started writing poetry, focusing on what he called “low-down folks” and the Black American experience. “I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas,” he wrote. ![]() The family eventually landed in Cleveland.Īccording to the first volume of his 1940 autobiography, The Big Sea, which chronicled his life until the age of 28, Hughes said he often used reading to combat loneliness while growing up. Mary Langston died when Hughes was around 12 years old, and he relocated to Illinois to live with his mother and stepfather. When he was a young boy, his parents divorced, and, after his father moved to Mexico, and his mother, whose maiden name was Langston, sought work elsewhere, he was raised by his grandmother, Mary Langston, in Lawrence, Kansas. Hughes was born Febru(although some evidence shows it may have been 1901), in Joplin, Missouri, to James and Caroline Hughes. ![]() ![]() ![]() After making my first model of it for a class project when I was about twelve, using cardboard toilet paper rolls to stand in for the original’s elegantly fluted Doric columns, I embarked on creating a proper scale model, three feet wide by six feet long, the ambitiousness of which now strikes me as almost absurd and the construction of which was never completed, although it absorbed the next five years of my life. Of these, the Parthenon was the object of an almost obsessive interest. I was a fervent model-maker in my early teenage years, often devoting all of my after-school time to making intricate reproductions of buildings from antiquity. The difficulty of representing the past accurately-even if that past is itself a dream, a reconstruction of a reconstruction, a palimpsest of a palimpsest-is one known to people other than writers, of course. ![]() ![]() And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike. Set an impossible challenge by the nameless king, Miryem unwittingly spins a web that draws in a peasant girl, Wanda, and the unhappy daughter of a local lord who plots to wed his child to the dashing young tsar.īut Tsar Mirnatius is not what he seems. ![]() When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk-grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh-Miryem’s fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty-until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Not-so-good for Naomi Novik still means worlds above many other authors, after all.įirst sentence: The real story isn’t half as pretty as the one you’ve heard. It wasn’t as amazing as Uprooted and there were some problems for me that could easily have been fixed, but it was still a great book overall. While not an actual sequel, Spinning Silver is the spiritual successor to that book and so had quite a lot to live up to. Like many other readers, I adored Naomi Novik’s first foray into fairy tale territory in the shape of her novel Uprooted. ![]() ![]() And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school-archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. ![]() And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. ![]() Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. Love on the Brain Ali Hazelwood 3.96 264,595 ratings36,413 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Romance (2022) From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesiswith explosive results. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. ![]() Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without hesitation. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis-with explosive results. ![]() |