My high school reading list and I did not get along. There were very few books I enjoyed reading at that age, and the one I remember loving the most was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. And honestly, that tracks even to this day because I do love a dramatic, gloomy, and depressing affair with…
Here at The Quill To Live, we use our words to paint a picture of the stories we read. But as a visual person, I wondered, could I also capture your interest and inspire you to read a book based solely on fan art? Fan art is my end-of-book treat. As soon as the back…
I am taking a bit of a detour today. Among my reading goals for 2025, I had planned to try to read all the volumes of Vagabond (by Takehiko Inoue). Instead, I got distracted and did a full reread of Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow instead. Trigun was one of the pivotal science fiction stories of…
Our two-week tenth anniversary celebration is drawing to a close! Thanks so much to everyone who has ever visited, commented, or read one of our recommended books. Your support keeps us going. And while we’d probably do this even if only a few people read it, we certainly feel bolstered by the large numbers of…
Welcome back to another year of the Quill to Live’s Sci-Fi Fantasy March Madness! Every year in March, I find myself roped into all sorts of fantasy and sci-fi fight conversations. “Who would win in a fight between X and Y?” is a constant topic among fans, as everyone wants to make an inane argument…
Continue reading ➞ QTL March Madness 2025: Coolest Science Fiction Ships
As part of the 10-year anniversary, I (Alex) wanted writers at QTL to talk a little bit about the things they’ve written. To make it easy, I figured it would be fun to look at our first ever review for the site and really sit in our own cringiness. Then, they should take a little…
Book recommendations can reveal a lot about a person and be extremely personal. Even though fantasy and sci-fi stories are set in other worlds, they have the uncanny ability to capture a reader’s real desires, fears, unique brand of humor, romantic types, taste for adventure, and so much more. The books we share with one…
Are you curious to know what books we are looking forward to this year? Each member of The Quill to Live has staked their claim on the books they’ve been eyeing and are not-so-patiently waiting for in 2025. We hope that many, if not all, of these books end up on your list as well.…
Continue reading ➞ The Quill To Live Most Anticipated Watchlist: 2025
Hello, and welcome to the first-ever yearly reading reflection. This year, I asked our writers to sit down and take a little time to reflect on their reading years and see if they had any thoughts that bubbled to the surface when looking at their collective readings. Specifically, I asked them to go through and…
Continue reading ➞ A QTL Reflection: 2024 Accomplishments and 2025 Goals
While we don’t often review novellas for The Quill to Live, we thought we would do an end-of-year wrap-up of some stand-out shorts that we collectively read in 2024. We did not read enough of a sample of novellas to definitively plant a flag in the ground and say these are the best, but they…
