Friendship

  • Friendship Stories for the New Year

    Friendship Stories for the New Year

    Though we often associate love stories with romantic partnership, Lilly Dancyger’s First Love: Essays on Friendship highlights the role that friendship plays in forming our associations with love, as well as opportunities to care for one another and show forms of love we may not receive in our families of origin or romantic relationships. After reading… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo NW 2024: Friendship

    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anaïs Nin In 2023, one of our more popular Book Bingo categories was “Read With a Friend.” We often hear how often friends tackle Book Bingo… Continue reading

  • Making friends: creating community as adults

    How do you make friends and cultivate community as an adult? You may have noticed an uptick in studies and reporting about loneliness, social isolation, a widespread breakdown of community. Or maybe you’ve been feeling it yourself. Here are a few books that look past romantic relationships to argue for the importance of friendships in… Continue reading

  • To Every Friendship There is a Season

    One of the things I constantly try to remind myself and others is that expectations are a relationship killer. And while I was thinking of that in romantic terms, I should have also been looking at that in friendships too. Friendships have been on my mind a lot lately —friendships lost, tested, stretched, made, molded… Continue reading

  • Romantic Wednesdays: Love for Friends

    Valentine’s Day is just a few days away! In order to shake things up a bit though I thought I would offer some books that focus on the bonds of friendship rather than romantic relationships. After all, friends are the ones who are there for you before, during and, if it doesn’t work out, after… Continue reading

  • Family lives and relationships in fiction: 10 books to try

    As families have changed to become more inclusive so has our concept of what used to be called “domestic fiction” or “women’s fiction.” Here are 10 newer stories that reflect social changes and are of interest to a wider variety of readers. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close Realizing it’s time to get their… Continue reading

  • Films Found at my Branch

    I often browse the shelves of my branch library for impulse DVD’s to watch instead of commercial TV. This can lead to some winners and some losers. Staring at the shelves one asks oneself, “If this film is really any good, how come I haven’t heard of it?” Every now and then I get lucky… Continue reading