Okay I also looked a LOT because I too wanted an upgrade from Ikea but for the quantity we needed -- 18 -- Ikea Billy bookcases were the best option. Ikea does have some fancier ones too, but we went for maximizing shelf space.
This is such a great read about community, fighting injustice and finding love and family. Go get it, and also read the prequel, The Quiet Side!
These have been cozy and fun and if you like both those things you'll like this!
book cover for 'The Quiet Light : Sage's Sanctuary Book 1' by Casey Blair. A pastel book cover with a purple cottage in the center. A pale blue dragon sleeps in front. THe scene is framed with purple mountains and a pink forest.
Happy Release Day!
The Quiet Light
Sage's Sanctuary Book 1
by Casey Blair
@caseyblair.bsky.social
⛓️mate bond
🐉dragon shifter
🍧ice cream
🏡cozy mountain cottage
⭐FMC's magic is wrath
#book #booksky #fantasy
Available NOW: The Quiet Light (Sage's Sanctuary Book 1) by Casey Blair hardcover mockup with trope taps: cozy mountain cottage, only one bed, dragon shifter mmc, mate bond, fmc's magic is wrath, ice cream. books2read.com/QuietLight. Background is pink and purple with cozy cottage in front of forested mountain with dragon flying above.
🍦 The Quiet Light is here! 🍦
She's a powerful mage awake again after 500 years. He's a dragon: her ancient enemy… who has just introduced her to ice cream, and she's enchanted—with ice cream, and with him.
And she's not going to let anyone take either of them from her. 💖
books2read.com/quietlight
"Mommy I am sooooooo proud that you are potty trained," 3yo Z tells me
the hits keep coming 😂😂
"Even @djangowexler.bsky.social is potty trained," 3yo Z informs me
Unsure what she's implying 😂😂
If the former relies on him taking action, definitely get your own.
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That doesn't sound like you being a bad divorced woman to me.
I'm contributing to The Books They Can't Burn charity auction. FaRo Society x PEN America. Picture of THE QUIET LIGHT and THE QUIET SIDE hardcovers with book sleeve, stickers, and art.
I'm contributing to The Books They Can't Burn charity auction!
Head over to 32auctions.com/faro2026 and help save books 💖
They are already set for no DRM! 🙂
The Quiet Side and The Quiet Light paperbacks by Casey Blair from her Kickstarter.
Absolutely inhaled these over the last 28 hours. These are so fantastic, @caseyblair.bsky.social!
Super glad I read The Quiet Side first. It gave me some important context for The Quiet Light. The Quiet Light is a book for the times we’re living in and I loved how Wrath is a force for good (1/5)
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After 500 years in stasis, Yora has gone to wash up, and Zan accidentally walks in on her after she's also taken her clothes off--fully naked and not embarrassed at being seen by him.
Zan... has some feelings about this. 😉 Primarily about wanting him to be the ONLY one who sees her like this. 💖
When the dragon shifter mmc walks in on her when OOPS she's naked: an alt-POV bonus scene for The Quiet Light.
psst want an bonus scene for my new cozy romantasy? anyone who preorders can get it!
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Character postcard and dragon eating ice cream sticker
Covers of The Quiet Side and The Quite Light by Casey Blair, both from her Kickstarter.
Bookmail! Got these two from @caseyblair.bsky.social recent Kickstarter! :) Excited to read these! Thank you, Casey!
Two cats in loaf position next to each other, staring across the bathroom at Casey.
wow do I just sit and stare at YOU in the litter box?? no I do not!! 😤
hahahaha woops but also #sorrynotsorry? 😂😂
Casey and Django selfie leaning their heads together and smiling.
Top of a stack of wagyu beef trays.
happy dateiversary to @djangowexler.bsky.social!
celebrating with MEATS aka new local shabu place 💖
Come for the opening with the fmc being arrested for protesting women's suffrage, stay for fucking over maps of British Honduras to protect local access to history, and explosives, and magic, and... ✨
PS there is a Kickstarter for this series live RIGHT NOW: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jbe...
I am seeing lots of calls in my feed today for historical fantasy romance, and I am DELIGHTED to inform all of you that EMPIRE OF SHADOWS by @jbensonink.bsky.social exists and you (yes, YOU) need to read it.
jacquelynbenson.com/empire-of-sh...
We have SIX DAYS to get this out of the Washington State Senate. NEXT TUESDAY is the legislative deadline to get bills out their house of origin.
If it doesn't pass by then, it likely dies till 2027.
Since farmworkers were written out of labor laws in 1937, we have to win at the state level.
3yo: Pluto is a good planet.
me: THAT'S RIGHT PLUTO *IS* A GOOD PLANET never forget ✊
--a millennial scorpio who will never let this go
but today @djangowexler.bsky.social sang it to her the traditional way and she paid attention
so now she just keeps talking about the little orgy and I am NOT correcting her, just going to laugh about this forever 🤣🤣
"the little Lord Je" --> "the little orgy"
this is a book that plays carols and the battery is dying, which is why it was making strange noises
most of the book is like, jingle bells, you know? so when I sing this for her, I sub the name of one of our cats 😂
Picture of illustrated page with lyrics to Away in a Manger. Casey's finger points to the words "the little Lord Je" covering up the 'sus' part of 'Jesus'.
3yo: The little orgy was making a noise.
ME: the what now
3: Yes, the little orgy!
ME:
3: Come on, I will show you the little orgy in my book!
ME: yes, please show me which of your books has the little orgy
3yo takes out a book and turns to this page, at which point I am crying with laughter:
Access to anime, which was hugely formative storytelling for me, and was incredibly hard to get before the internet. Connecting with the kind of nerds who *got* me, when the people around me very much didn't.
Not all the tech is an improvement for sure! But I'd say there are some for sure.
Or meeting someone, and something comes up, you can't find each other? I can call them. I used to have to call collect to TRY to reach my mom if some school schedule thing changed, and sometimes it just...wouldn't work, and I wouldn't have enough change to try again
Ok a lot of the comparisons I probably can't comment on then because of where tech was at when I grew up, but there are definitely things I would still count as wins. Like omg the stress of figuring out how to get to someone's house using a Thomas map before Google, and if you missed a step... dire
