Amanda Landegren

Edgar seems (almost) as pleased as me to see this thesis in print for the first time! Still some way to go but big milestone ✨🥂

My American partner is going through the same thing in Sweden - just last week he was scrambling to find any place that would send an urgent fax 😂

”Active, informed, iron-willed wonder is a skill, not a gift: you have to work at it. And you cannot remain in awe of that which is familiar, so the only way to maintain wonder is to learn: learn, and keep learning.”

Beyond excited for this! I’ll be sharing some of my findings on the emergence and historical development of children’s urban fantasy ✨

Had the sweetest interaction on Instagram today - took a chance and asked an author for a ‘research copy’ of a text since the book is really hard to get hold of in Sweden, and he offered to send me the whole series! 🥹 and he seemed super excited about my dissertation in general 🫶🏻

A “hoax.”

I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.

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How many times is it acceptable to write ‘outwith’ in a doctoral dissertation? 😅 It’s mostly a little nod to my time living in Scotland, but, also, ‘within and outwith’ just sound so satisfying together??

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fa…

As promised, my essay on Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.

It's a long one and was great fun to write, not to mention thoroughly energizing. And it's got me really excited to take a closer look at the rest of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.

Huge shout out to @timothysmiller.bsky.social.

I put A Series of Unfortunate Events on the reading list for the first time this semester and I must say it was a banger to teach. Worked super well as a lens through which to look at trends and changes in the publishing industry around the millennium. And the students all seemed very engaged ✨

I’m surprised at the level of resistance I felt towards going back to work today - even though I’m really pumped about writing on my introduction and prepping the last few children’s lit classes of the semester, all I seem to want to do is procrastinate??😴

(re-)reading this gem over the holidays as I’m about to revisit my chapter on layered urban histories after new years — also a way to access a much-missed Scotland ✨

YouTube video by vlogbrothers About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska

Since Looking for Alaska has become the second-most banned book in America, let's talk about THAT scene.
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He advocates for cuddle breaks 😌

Today’s home office set up! Edgar making sure this thesis will actually be written #PhDlife