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Author: Cole Rush
Quill To Live Crossword 11: Book Parts
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A Rover’s Story – A Blast(off)
My local bookstore’s summer reading challenge included the prompt “a YA or middle-grade book with a robot,” and I felt utterly lost. The owner—and the person who created the SFF-themed challenge—suggested A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga. I love space exploration as much as the next basic dude, so I queued the book on Spotify…
Bad Doings And Big Ideas – Mostly The Former
Bill Willingham, best known as the creator of Fables, collects odds and ends from his career as a comic book writer and artist in Bad Doings & Big Ideas. The beefy tome curates non-Fables tales, including some that never garnered much readership in their initial runs. The result should have been a delightful collection of…
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Quill To Live Crossword 10: We Get Around
Ten whole crossword puzzles! What an arbitrary milestone! Let's get solvin', because this week's puzzle is already in motion. QTL Crossword: We Get Around Puzzle Spoilers Below! Which would you rather try—riding a dragon or riding a flying broomstick? If you picked broomstick, what is wrong with you? For more puzzles, subscribe to my newsletter,…
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Skeleton Crew – Good Bones
My quest to read through the Stephen King catalogue continues! My most recent trip to the King well took me to the murky waters of Skeleton Crew, a short story collection full of various horrors, creepy locales, and people who turn out to be more monstrous than actual monsters. The collection includes a novella, tons…
Quill To Live Crossword 9: Who’s On FIrst?
Welcome, folks, to our ninth QTL crossword! That's a fitting milestone for this puzzle. If I told you why, the whole thing would be spoiled! Get solvin' to unravel the (admittedly tiny) mystery! QTL Crossword: Who's On First? Puzzle Spoilers Below! The inspiration for this puzzle was a conversation with a friend. She asked if…
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Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil – It’s Got Fangs
V.E. Schwab, we meet again! My first-ever QTL review covered Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic. The intervening years have not seen us cross paths until now. A book club friend selected Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil, marking my return to the author’s pantheon. It was a nice return full of pleasant thoughts…
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Quill To Live Crossword 8: The Gentlemen!
Howdy, everyone! We're back with QTL's eighth crossword! IT's a nod to one of our long-time site favorites. Solve away! QTL Crossword: The Gentlemen! Puzzle Spoilers Below! Nothing like cramming a super lengthy answer into a vertical grid! It seems only fitting for the larger-than-life presence of Locke Lamora and his Gentlemen Bastards. For more…
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The Book of the Damned – Paradys Lost
I have a small book club with two of my friends from guitar class. We don’t meet to discuss the books. We just read them at similar times and discuss them in class or over text. It’s just a trio-buddy read, really. The books up to this point have all been great—This Is How You…





