#coming-of-age — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #coming-of-age, aggregated by home.social.
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Ganz großartiger witziger Entwicklungsroman über eine junge Engländerin, die in den 70ern & frühen 80ern zwischen Feminismus & Misogynie versucht, ihr Leben auf die Reihe zu kriegen. Aber CN: Kindstod.
#Literature #novel #comingofage #womenwriting #femaleauthorhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e31acd49-282e-4434-bb5b-c8a24910325a
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Somehow, Teen Witch escaped my notice back in 1989. I went to the video store a lot and I had no idea this existed until maybe 12-15 years ago. Granted, I wasn't the target audience back then, but still... Something this goofy and campy? I should have known about it.
Read the review from September 2020 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-1pU
#blog #review #musical #comedy #comingofage #robynlively #80s
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⏳ You appreciate stories that create nostalgia and make readers reflect on their own lives.
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day? "Some books tell a story. Others become part of our story. 📚✨ Madol Doova will always be both a memory and a lesson." 📚✨ What is the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?For me, it was Madol Doova.I was around 12 or 13 years old—a time filled with mischief, laughter, adventures, and not much concern about responsibilities. Like many kids, I spent more time having fun than thinking […] -
⏳ You appreciate stories that create nostalgia and make readers reflect on their own lives.
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day? "Some books tell a story. Others become part of our story. 📚✨ Madol Doova will always be both a memory and a lesson." 📚✨ What is the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?For me, it was Madol Doova.I was around 12 or 13 years old—a time filled with mischief, laughter, adventures, and not much concern about responsibilities. Like many kids, I spent more time having fun than thinking […] -
⏳ You appreciate stories that create nostalgia and make readers reflect on their own lives.
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day? "Some books tell a story. Others become part of our story. 📚✨ Madol Doova will always be both a memory and a lesson." 📚✨ What is the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?For me, it was Madol Doova.I was around 12 or 13 years old—a time filled with mischief, laughter, adventures, and not much concern about responsibilities. Like many kids, I spent more time having fun than thinking […] -
Soleen Yusef – „Sieger sein“ (2024)Leute, ich hab mich schon wieder in einen Film verliebt! Im deutschen Gegenwartskino taucht ja echt nur selten mal einer auf, der Jugend, Flucht, Migration und Popkultur mit so viel Energie zusammendenkt wie das hier. Regisseurin Soleen Yusef erzählt aber keine klassische Aufstiegsgeschichte. Kein „Kick it like Beckham“ im Wedding, sondern ein vibrierendes Bild von Zugehörigkeit, Reibung und Selbstbehauptung in einer Gesellschaft, die Kindern mit Fluchterfahrung gern erzählt, sie müssten sich nur genug anstrengen. (ARD, Wh.)
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Air Awakens "She was taught to fear magic. Then she saved the Crown Prince’s life with a power that shouldn’t exist" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Elise Kova Rating: 4.4/5 (10,225 Reviews) #fantasy #ya #romance #magic #elemental #comingofage #books #booksky #prince #library #slowburn #series
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The Sideways Life of Denny Voss: A Novel "On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one" Sale: $3.99 to $1.99 by Holly Kennedy Rating: 4.6/5 (8,447 Reviews) #books #booksky #humor #satire #fiction #novel #readers #kindle #goodreads #smalltownfiction #comingofage
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AI runs the school; a janitor runs the truth. One kid must choose a future. Funny and warm and slightly too real. Read today: https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/career-day-scifi-short-story/ #scifi #AI #comingofage
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Soft Launch: A Coming-of-Adulthood Novel "The biggest risk is staying the same" Sale: $5.99 to $2.99 by Sarah Vacchiano Rating: 4.0/5 (3,109 Reviews) #comingofage #womenfiction #romance #law #booksky #books #career #startingover #debutnovel
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The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Melkweg, Friday, June 12 at 09:15 PM GMT+2
Together with Kaboom Animation Festival we bring the best anime to the big screen!
The Boy and the Beast is a successful coming-of-age story by anime giant Mamoru Hosoda that follows nine-year-old runaway Ren and gruff beast Kumatetsu fighting, arguing, and slowly discovering the true meanings of strength, anger, and loneliness. After which, Ren will have to choose between romance in modern-day Tokyo and a beast kingdom rather resembling feudal Japan.
Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.
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AI runs school. A janitor runs the truth. One kid tries to pick a future. Funny. Warm. Slightly too real. https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/career-day-scifi-short-story/ #scifi #author #AI #comingofage
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World Whisperer "Grow slowly, for this is the way of the great trees that do not fall when the winds come and beat against them" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Rachel Devenish Ford Rating: 4.5/5 (1,434 Reviews) #fantasy #youngadult #comingofage #booksky #magic #adventure #books #YA #free
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Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Vika's Avenger" (2013) by Lawrence Watt-Evans
•A refreshing science fantasy/mystery set in a dazzling alien city!•
On an alien planet 12,000 years in the future, a young man named Tulzik Ambroz travels in pursuit of the man who murdered his sister. The trail leads him to Ragbaan City, a place unimaginably old and inhabited by all sorts of beings—including half-insane holograms and AI programs. Layer upon layer of ancient civilizations make up the city, which is more than half ruins.
["Friend, in Ragbaan a dozen lifetimes is nothing. Didn’t you hear me mention the High Piers?”
“I did,” Urushak acknowledged. “I don’t know what they are.”
“They’re piers,” Sart explained. “Docks. Wharves. Except instead of on the bay, they’re on the hillside above most of the city.”
Urushak looked puzzled. “What, for airships?”
Sart shook his head. “No, no. At least, not originally. They were built thousands of years ago, in the Warm Years, when the sea was a hundred yards deeper than it is now. And they’re still standing. Some of them even have buildings on them, mostly temples."]
The variety of ancient and alien technologies in Ragbaan City is enormous; much of it is forgotten or misunderstood, and the line between tech and magic is effectively unknown. At the same time the city is busy and bustling with life; many of the residents live by searching the ruins for valuable items of technology, or "tek".
Coming from a small village, Tulzik's quest is a difficult one. Finding one man among a city of a million or more people is daunting, to say the least. But like most of Watt-Evans' protagonists, Tulzik is bright and has a good measure of common sense. Seeking out advice and help is one of the first thing he does.
That's where the story become as much a detective story as science-fantasy. The murderer Tulzik seeks is no ordinary man, and his motivation for killing Tulzik's sister leads to still more mysteries—and more adventures.
It's a damned good story! And sadly, it never received the success it deserved. It's not available for loan via the Internet Archive at all; even BookWyrm.social didn't have a listing for it (I've corrected that omission). Physical and ebook versions are available from Barnes & Noble and Amazon 🤮. You can also order them directly from the publisher, Misenchanted Press. If you have a good library, they may be able to get you a copy via interlibrary loan.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
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Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Kim" (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
This is one of the most precious books I know. It's one of the rare books which brings tears to my eyes every time I finish it. In other words, it's one of the three books which are closest to my heart.
Kipling has a bad reputation as a colonialist author, these days. In fact he's been despised in some circles for many decades now. But "Kim" is the novel which shows that even a colonialist can be a human being with a very human love for the culture of the colonized.
"Kim" is the story of a boy in 1890s India: Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and an English nanny. Growing up as a native in the city of Lahore, no one except he knows that he's not a native—and he doesn't care about it himself. He lives for fun and excitement, known to the people of the city as "The Little Friend of All the World".
"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon,' hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot."
Incidentally, Kipling himself grew up in Lahore. His father was the curator of the Wonder-House of Lahore, a museum. And Kipling included his father and the museum itself at the start of the novel.
Kim meets an ancient Tibetan lama who has left his monastery in the Himalayas to find a sacred river. The two become friends and travel together across India; the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with the lama is mind-blowing. Kipling paints the India of the time with such passionate depth of feeling that it serves as a character in itself. The variety of peoples and customs is simply amazing. Ever since I read this book I've wished I could travel to India in that time.
But "Kim" isn't just a travelogue. There's adventure, intrigue, espionage, humor, and one of the most perfect coming-of-age stories ever written. Kim is drawn into the "Great Game" of spying between the European powers, and is educated as an agent by masters of the craft.
What can I say? It's a deeply moving and beautiful book. And you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats from Standard Ebooks.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/kim
I've often thought that "Kim" is proof that a book doesn't have to be science fiction or fantasy to be breathtakingly exotic and magical, while retaining a core of incredibly touching humanity.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
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“Hey, I picked up your new book, The Movie Never Ends, really enjoyed it, and gave you a 5-star review. It was a great read!”
This is the true story of one young man’s journey into manhood! #comingofage #youngadult #motorcyclediaries
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics) "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" Sale: $16.99 to $1.99 Harper Lee Rating: 4.7/5 (147,171 Reviews) #classic #literature #booksky #books #comingofage #race #justice
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Just finished reading this and it somehow completely charmed me. It's a mix of #CozyCrime and #ComingOfAge, from the POV of a 12-year old girl living in a small West Yorkshire town at the end of the 1970s when the Yorkshire Ripper was being hunted.
As a #Sheffield lad born the same year as the heroine, the use of #Yorkshire dialect and mannerisms and the authentic world-building brought back vivid childhood memories. A bittersweet story with much sadness but also courage and grit.
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Red Sky at Morning: A Novel (Perennial Classics) "A true delight" —Washington Post Book World Sale: $17.99 to $1.99 by Richard Bradford Rating: 4.5/5 (978 Reviews) #comingofage #historical #wwii #newmexico #classic #booksky #fiction #books #youngadult #literature
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The Sideways Life of Denny Voss: A Novel "Whenever Denny tries to do the right thing, chaos ensues" Sale: $3.99 to $1.99 by Holly Kennedy Rating: 4.6/5 (7,531 Reviews) #Fiction #Humor #Mystery #ComingOfAge #Disability #FeelGood #BookRecommendation #BookSky
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Am 21. Mai live bei uns: The Stamps. Das Trio aus Walyalup/Fremantle (Australien) verbindet Coming-of-Age-Indie-Pop mit gleichermaßen roher Energie und glitzernder Melancholie.
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