John Griogair Bell4d ago
A Conventional Boy https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/30/a-conventional-boy/ #AngleterreRomansNouvellesEtc #book #CharlesStross #ContemporaryFantasy #DarkFantasy #DonjonsEtDragonsRomansNouvellesEtc #DungeonsAndDragonsGame #DungeonsAndDragonsGameFiction #england #EnglandFiction #fantasy #FantasyFiction #FantasyGames #FantasyGamesFiction #fiction #LaundryFiles #magic #MagicFiction #Novels #ParanormalFiction #QuestsExpeditions #QuestsExpeditionsFiction #QueTeRomansNouvellesEtc #review #romans #TPolyphilus
John Griogair BellFeb 18
“I thought you made some good points about how there are some books we’d be better off without, like Fifty Shades of Grey and Meditate Your Way to a Wealthier You.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/18/i-thought-you-made-some-good-points-about-how-there-are-some-books-wed-be-better-off-without-like-fifty-shades-of-grey-and-meditate-your-way-to-a-wealthier-you/ #AmericanLiterature #betterOffWithout #Bloggers #BloggersFiction #BlogueursRomansNouvellesEtc #book #BooksAndReading #ConnieWillis #FantasyFiction #fiction #FiftyShadesOfGrey #LivresEtLecture #magic #MagicFiction #MeditateYourWayToAWealthierYou #MetaphysicalVisionaryFiction #quote #ScienceFiction #someBooks #someGoodPoints #thoughtMade
John Griogair BellJan 7
“It’s lonely being around a bunch of people who don’t like you. Only worse, because they’re mean. If I’m gonna be lonely either way, I’d rather be lonely alone.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/01/07/its-lonely-being-around-a-bunch-of-people-who-dont-like-you-only-worse-because-theyre-mean-if-im-gonna-be-lonely-either-way-id-rather-be-lonely-alone/ #aBunchOf #ActionAndAdventureFiction #AdventureAndAdventurersFiction #AdventureFiction #AdventureStories #alone #AmitieRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #beLonely #because #beingAround #book #ChildrenWithDisabilities #ChildrenWithDisabilitiesJuvenileFiction #ChildrenS #ChildrenSActionAdventure #ChildrenSFriendship #ChildrenSSpineChillingHorror #DeMonologieRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #demonology #DemonologyFiction #DemonologyJuvenileFiction #donTLikeYou #dragons #DragonsFiction #DragonsJuvenileFiction #DragonsRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #eitherWay #EnfantsHandicapeSRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #etcFiction #etcPourLaJeunesse #fantasy #FantasyFiction #FauteuilsRoulantsRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #fiction #friendship #FriendshipFiction #FriendshipJuvenileFiction #Georgia #GeorgiaFiction #GeorgiaJuvenileFiction #GeOrgieETatRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #GiantsFolklore #GiantsFolkloreFiction #GiantsFolkloreJuvenileFiction #GiantsFiction #GiantsJuvenileFiction #gonnaBeLonely #HandicappedChildrenJuvenileFiction #HandicappedFiction #Hotels #HotelsAndMotelsFiction #HotelsAndMotelsJuvenileFiction #JuvenileFiction #JuvenileFictionDisabilities #JuvenileFictionFamilyParents #JuvenileFictionHorror #JuvenileFictionMysteriesDetectiveStories #JUVENILEFICTIONFantasyMagic #juvenileWorks #kids #lonely #magic #MagicFiction #MagicJuvenileFiction #mean #MeResEtFillesRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #MissingPersons #MissingPersonsFiction #MissingPersonsJuvenileFiction #MoNetz #monsters #MonstersFiction #MonstersJuvenileFiction #MonstresRomansNouvelles #motels #MotelsJuvenileFiction #MotelsRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #MotherDaughterRelationshipFiction #MothersAndDaughters #MothersAndDaughtersFiction #MothersAndDaughtersJuvenileFiction #onlyWorse #people #PeopleWithDisabilitiesFiction #PersonnesDisparuesRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #PerspectivesOnDisability #quote #rather #romans #Wheelchairs #WheelchairsFiction #WheelchairsJuvenileFiction
John Griogair BellDec 31
“Well. This is a surprise,” she said. “So I’m alive? I think I’ll go buy a bright red dress.” She strode out of the shop. https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/31/well-this-is-a-surprise-she-said-so-im-alive-i-think-ill-go-buy-a-bright-red-dress-she-strode-out-of-the-shop/ #actionAdventure #alive #AveryFischerUdagawa #BoardinghousesFiction #BoardinghousesJuvenileFiction #book #brightRed #ChildrenS #dress #FairyTalesFolklore #fantasy #FantasyMagic #FantasyFiction #friendship #GeographicalMythsFiction #GeographicalMythsJuvenileFiction #goBuy #HotelsAndMotelsFiction #HotelsAndMotelsJuvenileFiction #ImaginaryPlacesFiction #ImaginaryPlacesJuvenileFiction #JapanFiction #JapanJuvenileFiction #kids #legend #LieuxImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #MagicFiction #MagicJuvenileFiction #MiddleGradeFictionJapan #MihoSatake #PensionsDeFamilleRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #quote #SachikoKashiwaba #shop #SocialThemes #strodeOut #surprise #think #VillagesFiction #VillagesJuvenileFiction #VillagesRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse
John Griogair BellDec 2

“It was easy to feel insignificant, here in this grand room built by a long-lost civilization, with a mysterious and deadly adversary commanding em to vanish, but Horace had not chosen this adventure to abandon it. E may not be skilled, but e was stubborn and dedicated, and not so easy to get rid of.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/02/it-was-easy-to-feel-insignificant-here-in-this-grand-room-built-by-a-long-lost-civilization-with-a-mysterious-and-deadly-adversary-commanding-em-to-vanish-but-horace-had-not-chosen-this-adventure/

#abandon #actionAdventureFantasy #actionAndAdventureFiction #adventure #adversary #amitieRomansNouvellesEtc #appartenancePsychologieSocialeRomansNouvellesEtc #apprenticesFiction #aromantic #aromanticPeopleFiction #asexual #asexualFiction #asexualiteOrientationSexuelleRomansNouvellesEtc #asexualitySexualOrientationFiction #belongingSocialPsychologyFiction #book #builtBy #butHorace #civilization #claudieArseneault #commanding #cozy #deadly #dedicated #easy #elfesRomansNouvellesEtc #elvesFiction #fantasy #fantasyFiction #feel #friendshipFiction #genderNonconformingPeopleFiction #getRidOf #grandRoom #imaginaryPlacesFiction #insignificant #lgbtqFantasy #lgbtqFantasyFiction #lgbtqFiction #lieuxImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #literaryFictionLgbtq #longLost #magicFiction #mayNotBe #mysterious #nonBinary #notChosen #notSoEasy #novels #queerFiction #questsExpeditionsFiction #queCc82teRomansNouvellesEtc #quote #romans #shortReads #skilled #stubborn #theChroniclesOfNerezia #transgender #vanish

John Griogair BellAug 25, 2025

Kothar of the Magic Sword

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/25/kothar-of-the-magic-sword/

#FantasticFiction #FantasyFiction #fiction #GardnerFFox #Kothar #KotharSwordSorcery #magic #MagicFiction #Novels #QuestsExpeditions_ #QuestsExpeditionsFiction #QueTeRomansNouvellesEtc #review #romans #TPolyphilus

John Griogair BellAug 18, 2025

Shadowland

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/18/shadowland/

#ActionAdventureFantasy #BoardingSchoolsFiction #book #ContemporaryFantasy #FantasyContemporary #fiction #GoodAndEvilFiction #gothicHorror #horror #HorrorGeneral #InternatsRomansNouvellesEtc #MagicFiction #MagiciansFiction #ParanormalFantasyBooks #ParanormalFiction #peterStraub #review #SuspenseThriller #SuspenseThrillers #TPolyphilus #ThrillersSuspense

John Griogair BellJun 2, 2025

Babel

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/06/02/babel/

#ActionAdventureFantasy #AlternativeHistoriesFiction_ #AntiImpeRialismeRomansNouvellesEtc #AntiImperialistMovements #AntiImperialistMovementsFiction #book #China #ChinaForeignRelationsFiction #ChinaForeignRelationsGreatBritainFiction #ChineRelationsExteRieuresGrandeBretagneRomansNouvellesEtc #DiplomaticRelations #EpicFantasy #fantasy #FantasyFiction #fiction #FictionAlternativeHistory #FICTIONFairyTalesFolkTalesLegendsMythology #FictionFantasyHistorical #FictionFantasyEpic #FictionFantasyUrban #FictionHolidays #FictionLiterary #FictionMagicalRealism #FICTIONFantasyDarkFantasy #FictionOccultSupernatural #GrandeBretagneRelationsExteRieuresChineRomansNouvellesEtc #GreatBritain #GreatBritainForeignRelationsChinaFiction #GreatBritainForeignRelationsFiction #HistoricalFantasy #historicalFiction #ImperialismFiction #ImperialismMoralAndEthicalAspects #ImperialismMoralAndEthicalAspectsFiction #ImpeRialismeAspectMoralRomansNouvellesEtc #literaryFiction #magic #MagicFiction #Novels #PopularFiction #RFKuang #review #romans #TPolyphilus #TranslatingAndInterpreting #TranslatingAndInterpretingFiction

John Griogair BellMar 3, 2025

Herald of Ruin

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/03/herald-of-ruin/

#arkhamHorror #book #BookstoresFiction #DetectiveAndMysteryFiction #fantasy #FantasyFiction #FantasyTVMovieGameTieIn #fiction #horror #HorrorFiction #JohnCoulthart #LibrairiesRomansNouvellesEtc #MagicFiction #MonstersFiction #MonstresRomansNouvellesEtc #OccultHorror #OccultistesRomansNouvellesEtc #OccultistsFiction #PopularFiction #review #TPolyphilus #TimPratt #TVMovieGameTieInFiction

Herald of Ruin - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Herald of Ruin [Amazon, Bookshop, DriveThruRPG, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Tim Pratt, cover John Coulthart Tim Pratt’s series of novels within the Arkham Horror fiction line are called “The Sanford Files” after Carl Sanford, the ruling magus of the Order of the Silver Twilight. Herald of Ruin is […]

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John Griogair BellFeb 4, 2025

“The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/04/the-desire-for-revenge-rises-within-him-resplendent-and-gauche-like-the-phoenix-on-the-hood-of-a-trans-am/

#americanHumorousFiction #book #desire #devil #DevilFiction #FictionGeneral #FictionLiterary #gauche #hood #humorousFantasy #HumorousLiteraryFiction #JeremyPBushnell #magic #MagicFiction #NewYorkNYFiction #NewYorkStateNewYork #Novelists #NovelistsFiction #ParanormalFiction #phoenix #quote #resplendent #revenge #rises #satanism #SatanismFiction #TransAm #Warlocks #WarlocksFiction #within

"The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am." - The Hermetic Library Blog

The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am. Jeremy P Bushnell, The Weirdness: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “You and I have been friends for a long time, but that is, without exception, the most batshit insane line of […]

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