Revival - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Revival [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Stephen King Stephen King’s 2014 novel Revival is in no way a “stretch” for the author, and was remarked as a “return to horror” after other sorts of writing projects. Its settings are King’s familiar Maine, Colorado, Maine again. Its first-person […]

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He Shall Thunder in the Sky - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews He Shall Thunder in the Sky [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Elizabeth Peters, part 12 of the Amelia Peabody series This volume of the Amelia Peabody mysteries is set in Egypt during World War I, and follows on the events of A Falcon at the Portal, resolving many of the […]

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The Invention of Morel - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Invention of Morel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Adolfo Bioy Casares, trans Ruth L C Simms, preface Jorge Luis Borges, introduction Suzanne Jill Levine, part of the New York Review Books Classics series. Although this novel is very short, it feels increasingly slow and frustrating toward the […]

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