A Book about Friendship

Hello friends! Today, I am part of the last blog hop for 2021. I am hosting fellow book bloggers to tell us about a book about friendship. I’ll start off with my pick:

While Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a love story about two boys discovering their place in the world, I felt that the follow-up that came out this year, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World is truly a book about friendship. 

Once Ari understands himself better and his parents are open-minded about who he is, it is time for him to talk to his friends. I don’t remember them being prevalent in the first book and I loved reading about them in this book! Ari wanted to be invisible for the last so many years and yet, he never was. This last year of school brings him out of his shell and challenges the strong walls he thinks he had built.

There are so many lessons that Ari learns from his friends once he lets them in. Adult friendships aren’t like that, at least that’s my conclusion from my own experiences and those of others around me. I appreciated being plunged back into the bittersweetness of last year of high school, figuring out what we are doing next and more. 
Check out my full review and artwork here.

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Jo Linsdell @ JoLinsdell.com

I recently read The Secrets of Us by Lucinda Berry that has an incredibly strong friendship at its core. The two main characters, Krystal and Nichole, became friends and formed a sisterly bond growing up in foster care together. They always have, and always will be there for each other… even when they don’t know what happened or what the other one did. 

Description:

Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.

Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.

Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.

Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.

But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.

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Leslie Conzatti @ Upstream Writer

One stunning book centered around an unlikely friendship that I’ve read and very much enjoyed is Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. 

Oct. 11th, 1943 – A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page. I’ll be honest, if I didn’t know it was historical fiction, it very well could have been a book I dismissed as one of those angsty teen smut books, judging by the cover, and I might never have gotten as far as pulling it off the library shelves, for all the times I’ve seen it… but a friend recommended it to me, reassured me that it was NOT SMUT, and so I ended up reading it… and HOLY TOLEDO!! First of all, it starts from the point of view of the titular Verity, as she undergoes interrogation at the hands of these Nazis. She writes down snatches, vignettes, and accounts of her experiences meeting the pilot that was assigned to take her behind enemy lines (also a young woman like herself) on her mission that only herself and her superiors know about, and amid all the cover stories and lies and misconceptions, the true story unfolds, and it is glorious. A true testament to friendship under the most extreme circumstances, and definitely a highlight of my reading that year!

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Kaili @ Owl Book World

So, this topic actually took me a bit to really think about. I don’t read many books that have a big focus on friendship. Granted a lot of the characters in them do have friends and it talks about them some through the book there really isn’t a lot of focus on them through the book. But answering another question for the blog hop made me realize that I used to read a lot of books that focused on friendship along with other things. Just to name one off of the top of my head would be The Babysitters club. I use to read those stories all of the time when I was younger. If you’ve watched the show on Netflix then you’ll realize that a lot of the story revolves around friendship and how to resolve issues when problems arise. I feel like these types of books are good for girls because it gives them suggestions on how to handle things that aren’t super catty!

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Vidya Tiru @ Lady In Read Writes

There are way too many bookish friendships that warm my heart (both the totally fictional ones and those based on characters from real life). With the many choices that overwhelmed me, I decided to stick with something sweet and simple! Skunk and Badger are the most unlikely of friends, but friends that will totally capture your hearts and keep you smiling as you read about their adventures in an adorable series (two books so far, and hopefully more to come!)

Book one titled simply Skunk and Badger shows how they meet and over the course of adventuring and more, become, well, “friends,” while book two Egg Marks the Spot, is a delight. Both books need to be read, just like Skunk and Badger need to be friends!

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What’s a book about friendship that you enjoyed?

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