# Quill and Still

**Author(s):** Aaron Sofaer
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** fantasy, litrpg
**Pages:** 376
**Publisher:** Riverfolk Books
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781959531029
**ISBN-10:** 1959531026
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/quill-and-still

## Description

**Sophie Nadash once yearned to understand life and chemistry. Now a disillusioned scientist approaching middle age, she yearns to set aside pipettes and polymerase forever.**

A chance encounter with the Goddess Artemis sets her on the path to becoming the Alchemist for the rural Shemmai village of Kibosh, where the rat race gives way to peace and the quiet life. Freed from the hustle of Earth, she can relax, make friends, and rediscover her love for chemistry through its mystical precursor... and come to grips with the Jewish faith she left behind as a child.

Quill and Still weaves together chemistry, mythology, magic, and an off-the-path Judaism to form a slice-of-queer-life, which reviewers described as “like opening up a pulp fiction novel and getting Milton's paradise lost”. It's perfect for lovers of cozy, slice-of-life fiction in the vein of Becky Chambers’s “Records of a Spaceborn Few” or Jo Walton’s “Lifelode”.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Religion & Faith