coming of age

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• Stitches: A Memoir, by David Small

  
  Blogging for a Good Book — Authority: 125
  I’m not an enormous fan of graphic novels. I’ve got no problems with the idea of them, I’m just not very visually oriented. So I hope you’ll know how much I liked Stitches when I say that it may be favorite book of 2009. David Small’s memoir of his harrowing childhood is a terrifying tour de force . ...
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• Karan Johar-Ranbir Kapoor launch home video of Wake Up Sid

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Reliance BIG Home Video released the home video of “Wake Up Sid’ at a special release function in Crossword, Juhu. The event was attended by Karan Johar, the producer and Ranbir Kapoor, the lead actor of the movie. Also present was Ms. Sweta Agnihotri, Chief Operating Officer, Reliance BIG Home Video and Siddharth ...
  2 days ago

• Experiments in Publishing (Take 1)

  
  Open Culture — Authority: 600
  Those who read this blog regularly may remember my past posts ( here ,  here and here ) about the Amazon Kindle and recall that I have mixed feelings about it. You’ll also know that I’ve been interested in what authors such as J.A. Konrath have accomplished by releasing books on the Kindle itself. (Heck, some ...
  2 days ago

• TWO MORE TWILIGHT STARS “RUNAWAY” TO ANOTHER PROJECT

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 541
  More TWILIGHT SAGA stars branching out to other projects. KRISTEN STEWART and DAKOTA FANNING play real-life band-mates JOAN JETT and CHERRIE CURRIE in THE RUNAWAYS. Part “coming of age” story and part “biopic”, this one should have both girl and boy TWILIGHT fans standing in line.
  4 days ago

• Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell In Love by Lauren Tarshis

  
  Confessions of a Book Habitu — Authority: 126
  5 Stars JF Sequel to Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree Cute story, once again. These books actually have a lot in common with the Stargirl books-- only without the stuff that bugged me. :D For one, Emma-Jean is a 7th grader, which age would have made the Stargirl books make far more sense. AND Emma-Jean ...
  6 days ago

• THEATER OF THE ARID

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  There are a few directors who make dull, even insipid movies much too often for it to be a "surprise", but Im heartbroken every time it happens anyway. One of the kings of this tendency is Richard Linklater, who made the stunning dyad of romantic dramas Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, as well as the most perfect of ...
  6 days ago

• The Kind of Friends We Used To Be (MG)

  
  Becky's Book Reviews — Authority: 546
  Dowell, Frances ORoark. 2009. The Kind of Friends We Used To Be. Simon & Schuster. 234 pages. When Kate decided to play the guitar, she realized she would need new shoes. I loved this one. I just loved it. I loved it because I could relate to it. I loved it because I could see myself in both friends, in Kate ...
  1 week ago

• Real Cougar Names 2010 "The Year Women Come of Age"

  
  The Real Cougar Woman — Authority: 120
  As the Year of the Cougar winds down I am naming 2010 "The Year Women Come of Age". This is the perfect time to take everything you have worked so hard for and move it to the next level. Its...
  1 week ago

• Amarcord (review)

  
  FlickFilosopher.com — Authority: 507
  So far, in my 12-plus years as a film critic, Federico Fellini is the only filmmaker who makes me throw up my hands and complain that I just don’t understand, um, all those egghead film critics.
  1 week ago

• Listing Vetted: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles — fairly solid

  
  Web Fiction Guide — Authority: 123
  Daron thought life would get easier after he got away from his parents’ house in New Jersey, thanks to a scholarship to music school in New England.  But life is tough when there isn’t enough money to actually live on, you’re underage, and you don’t know where to turn.  And is it the best thing [...]
  1 week ago

• DISNEY ANIMATION: WELL AND TRULY, IM ON MY WAY NOW

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Brother Bear is the platonic ideal of a completely vanilla animated childrens movie: the one Disney film that, whenever I mention that Ive been working my way through the whole animated canon, I can guarantee that whomever Im talking to forgot that it exists. Even I keep forgetting that it exists: when working on ...
  1 week ago

• When You Don’t See Me by Timothy James Beck

  
  Elisa - My reviews and Ramblings — Authority: 480
  The collaboration of the four authors who write under the pen-name of Timothy James Beck built a strange “New York” series: all the spectrum of gay experiences and this time was the time of the young adult, self-discovery journey of a young gay man dealing with the traumatic experience of the after 9/11. At the ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: WANT TO TOUCH THINGS I DONT FEEL

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Now, here is a situation that I do not understand whatsoever: after completing Aladdin in 1992 and witnessing as it became the highest-grossing animated film ever produced at that, and still one of only two traditionally-animated features to break $200 million at the U.S. box office, directors Ron Clements and John ...
  1 week ago

• Young-Person-on-Existential-Journey

  
  This Distracted Globe — Authority: 109
  Laurel Canyon (2003) Written by Lisa Cholodenko Directed by Lisa Cholodenko Produced by Antidote Films/ Kuleshov Productions MPAA rating: “R for sexuality, language and drug use” Running time: 103 minutes Should I Care? Watching Lisa Cholodenko’s sophomore film the year it was released, I didn’t care ...
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• Me and Orson Welles (review)

  
  FlickFilosopher.com — Authority: 507
  The best ever love letter/horror story about the seductions and anxieties of life in the theater is the Canadian television show *Slings & Arrows.* This enchantingly bittersweet little film might be the second best.
  2 weeks ago

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson-- John Green and David Levithan

  
  BookEnvy — Authority: 114
  Meet Will Grayson: Hes the quiet almost-but-not-quite popular kid whose BFF Tiny is the biggest, gayest force in his small world. Will Grayson, his crush Jane, and Tiny take off for Chicago to catch an amazing band. When Will Graysons fake ID doesnt work, hes reduced to passing the time in a very unlikely place... ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEW HOME VIDEO PICKS - 12/8/09

  
  / HAMMER TO NAIL — Authority: 123
  The holidays are just around the corner. Gee, I can’t wait. Do you too suffer from a similar case of crippling paralysis that wreaks havoc on one’s central nervous system and turns what should be a pleasant occasion into a stressful affair? I don’t even like shopping for myself, let alone getting ‘creative’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

  
  Lous_Pages — Authority: 119
  Welcome to the world 300 years from now where everyone turn pretty when they reach 16 years. Before that they are Littlies and from around 12 years, they are Uglies. Uglies is also the title of the first book in Scott Westerfelds trilogy about Tally Youngblood. When we first meet Tally, she is only a month from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twenty Boy Summer

  
  A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy — Authority: 576
  Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler . Little Brown . 2009. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot : Anna and Frankie are next door neighbors, best friends since babyhood. For as long as anyone can remember, the two girls, along with Frankies older brother, Matt, are a trio. Matt dies the summer before he was ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Blind Side (review)

  
  FlickFilosopher.com — Authority: 507
  Is this some sort of white guilt thing? one of Sandra Bullock’s ladies-who-lunch friends asks her Tennessee socialite after she informally adopts a homeless black teen...
  2 weeks ago

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