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    I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
    I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
    I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
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    I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You

    By Yumi Sakugawa

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    YALSA Quick Pick Award Winner

    Express your love for your friends with this sweet, loving book that celebrates the joy of true friendship.

    I have a confession to make.
    I think I am in friend-love with you.

    What’s friend-love? It’s that super-awesome bond you share with someone who makes you happy every time you text each other, or meet up for an epic outing. It’s not love-love. You don’t want to swap saliva; you want to swap favorite books. But it’s just as intense and just as amazing.

    And it’s this search for that connection that comic-book artist Yumi Sakugawa captures in I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. It’s perfect if you've ever fallen in friend-love and want to show that person how much you love them...in a platonic way, of course.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781440573033
    I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
    Author

    Yumi Sakugawa

    Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Awards nominated comic book artist and the author of I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You and Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe. Her comics have also appeared in Bitch, The Best American Non­Required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at YumiSakugawa.com.

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    • 5/5
      i loooooved it!!!! i need to know the ending :(
    • 5/5
      Sweet and heartwarming words, I really enjoyed the storytelling in these drawings.
    • 4/5
      A love letter for all the friendships out there - highly reccomend!!
    • 4/5
      This sad yet the illustration is adorable. I wish the story could be longer
    • 2/5
      This is purely about a platonic relationship. Which I get. I also long for friendships like this. The continual mantra of but not like a romantic thing is really tiring, however. It's in the title. We get it. But also I think it considers platonic relationships in a weird way. The creator talks about hugs but putting your head on someone's shoulder and holding hands is apparently a weird, inherently romantic thing. A little too simplistic for me.
    • 4/5
      so cute and the song bloom by the paper kites fits so well!!!
    • 5/5
      The perfect book to enunciate what your clingy best friend has always wanted to say.
    • 4/5
      This beautiful comic book made me say "I want to be in friend-love with someone", which is something rarely happens to me. I am in book-love with this one ^^
    • 5/5
      So sweet! This book isJust simply beautiful and well worth a few minutes to read!
    • 4/5
      What a snapshot into the early 2010s. It’s a lovely awkward short comic that reminds me how much friend-love I have in my life.
    • 5/5
      As an aromantic person, this also can be pretty heavily applied to QPRs (Queer Platonic Relationships) in which it is not romantic or platonic, but falls somewhere off the line or in between (up to the person’s interpretation). Growing up it was so hard to navigate between purely platonic and that kind of “friend-love”. I felt this story deep in my heart, it really spoke to me. Definitely give it a read.
    • 3/5
      I give 3 stars, because I found Murakami's book, haha.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think I also feel those feelings with one of my friends. This book relates so much

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Feels close to my heart, I don’t even know why I’m crying while reading the last few pages. The story is indeed, felt really close to my heart.

      5 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What a beautiful ode to friendship. Did not see those tears coming.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I want this (as a physical) book now! I want to feel the paintbrush strokes through the paper. This was such a lovely gem to come upon!

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Makes me feel it's a little gay and makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, but it's wholesome neverthless.

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