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Amber R Cederström
@kilravockrose.bsky.social
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Acquisitions editor at the University of Wisconsin Press. Acquires in classics, folklore, Nordic studies, and Slavic studies. Cat person and animal lover. Scholar of legends and Nordic witchcraft. Views here my own, etc.
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My heart cat Totle, departed too soon and never forgotten.
A long-haired tuxedo cat. All that’s visible is her head, resting on a couch arm.
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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YES new book! So thrilled about this one. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Sacr...
Cover of University of Wisconsin Press book, SACRED SPRINGS IN THE CAMPS: GULAG MEMORY, LEGEND, AND PLACE, by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Doing a house renovation project and discovered a whole bunch of newspapers used as insulation in the attic walls. Here’s one from October 1914
Old newspaper showing a partial picture of The Pallada (a steam ship) with partial headline, “Cruiser Ship Sunk by Germans.” Other legible headlines read “Troops Rushed to Aid Armies in New Attack,” “Belgians Fleet Across Channel to Escape Foe,” “Mueller Wears Suit Belonging to Other Man,” and “[…]ses the [techno?]logy of […]ing Cars”
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Does anyone have any idea what this could be? My kid got it at a trunk or treat and we are all mystified. The pink stuff is liquid—doesn’t glow in the dark—and the tube doesn’t seem to open (easily; haven’t tried too hard). It’s maybe three inches long.
A clear plastic tube with pink liquid inside
October 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Tetus and her emotional support rocking horse
A black-and-white cat sleeping so close to an old wooden rocking horse that both of her front legs are wedged under it
October 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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…the parsnips?
Cover of a kid’s book, The Celery Stalks at Midnight
September 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Well that’s a new one during mandatory computer updates. Cool that I have a Zoom in two minutes
Black computer screen with message “Something didn’t go as planned. No need to worry—undoing charges. Please keep your computers on.”
September 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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When you buy a car from your elderly parents
Kitchen table covered in old paper road maps
August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Look at the books I got for my birthday! Bonus—both bought from our local book store 😍📚

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The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry and The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
August 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is probably one of those insufferable parent things, but I am truly so impressed by my kid’s ability to stay in the lines. He’s only four and a half!
A cartoon coloring sheet of a train, with a few sections meticulously colored in
August 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Tetus is angry that her food bowls do not have the Correct Food
A cat lying directly in front of two bowls, one filled with wet food, one with some dry food. She is deigning to eat neither
July 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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He'll be Madison, WI on Aug 9 at 2pm at A Room of One's Own! Hope to see some folks there.
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Find the book here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/N/Nord...
A poster advertising Pelle Dragsted's appearance at A Room of One's Own (2712 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI) on Aug. 9 from 2 to 3 pm. He'll be discussing his book with Professor Dean Krouk of UW-Madison.
July 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Poster advertising Pelle's appearances: Aug 1 at Politics and Prose (DC); Aug 2 at Philadelphia Ethical Society; Aug 5 at Scandinavia House (NYC); Aug 7 at Pilsen Community Books (Chicago); Aug 9 at A Room of One's Own (Madison); Aug 10 at East Side Freedom Library (St. Paul); Aug 12 at the National Nordic Museum (Seattle); Aug 16 at Village Well Books and Coffee (Culver City)
July 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Given Monica Green’s expertise, this was a funny coincidence of juxtaposition
Two skeets, one from NYT pitchbot about bringing back the Black Death, and one from Monica Green showing her bio, which notes one of her research areas as the Black Death.
July 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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And last but definitely not least, requisite reading about socialism in Denmark—how far it goes and how far it should go, by Danish politician Pelle Dragsted

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NORDIC SOCIALISM: THE PATH TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY, by Pelle Dragsted
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A critical volume on the various ways in which militaries present countermemories of human rights abuses in modern Latin America

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HOW THE MILITARY REMEMBERS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND COUNTERMEMORIES IN LATIN AMERICA, edited by Cynthia E. Milton and Michael J. Lazzara
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Ever wonder how Harry Potter fared in Russia? Wonder no more!

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The POLITICS OF FANTASY: MAGIC, CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, AND FANDOM IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA by Eliot Borenstein
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Fika i Skåne
A princesstårta decorated with a Swedish flag, coffee cups visible in background
June 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Someone read this Berenstain Bears book to RFK Jr.
Page from “The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor,” reading, in part, “‘…there are some kinds of medicine you take after you get sick, and those are very useful. But this kind of shot is a special medicine that keeps you from getting sick.’”
June 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I suppose I am done working
Selfie with my cat Tetus completely draped over me
May 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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On my desk today! Such a great book—and thrilled with how simultaneously vibrant and unsettling the cover is.
Book cover, WOMEN UNDER SUSPICION: FRATERNIZATION, ESPIONAGE, AND PUNISHMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION DURING WORLD WAR II, by Regina Kazyulina
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Books in the mail today! Folklore Fellows sale!
Three books: THE BLACK GENTLEMEN by Ülo Valk, THE MIGRATORY LEGENDS by Reidar Th. Christiansen, and CHILD MURDERESS AND DEAD CHILD TRADITIONS by Anne O’Connor
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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How many cats do we have, you might reasonably ask?

One. The answer is one very finicky cat.
Picture with four cat bowls, all of them with varying amounts of cat food.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Endangered prairie trillium plants in our yard?!?
Four plants, apparently prairie trillium, in the middle of a “lawn” (mostly creeping charlie)
May 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Strawberry plants from last year going strong! #tinyjoys
A happy strawberry plant, with green leaves and white flowers
May 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM