Welcome to the second stop on the blog tour for for Terra Elan McVoy’s Being Friends with Boys! We’ll continue with the top ten differences between being friends with boys and being friends with girls in a moment. First, lets look at a bit more about the book:
Charlotte and Oliver have been friends forever. She knows that he, Abe, and Trip consider her to be one of the guys, and she likes it that way. She likes being the friend who keeps them all together. Likes offering a girl’s perspective on their love lives. Likes being the behind-the-scenes wordsmith who writes all the lyrics for the boys’ band. Char has a house full of stepsisters and a past full of backstabbing (female) ex-best friends, so for her, being friends with boys is refreshingly drama-free…until it isn’t any more.
When a new boy enters the scene and makes Char feel like, well, a total girl…and two of her other friends have a falling out that may or may not be related to one of them deciding he possibly wants to be more than friends with Char…being friends with all these boys suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.
And now another way being friends with boys is different than being friends with girls from Terra…
Differences Between Being Friends With Boys, and Being Friends with Girls
Ever since my novel, Being Friends With Boys was released, I’ve been asked a lot about friendships between guys and girls. Is it possible, for one thing (duh, yes), and how is being friends with boys different than being friends with girls. I happen to be very lucky to have had friendships with both guys and girls all through middle- and high school, and continue to have fantastic friendships with men (and women) to this day. Though I think the value and intensity of guy/girl friendships and girl/girl friendships are definitely equal, there certainly are some differences. Follow my blog tour to read a few of my thoughts on how being friends with boys isn’t quite the same as being friends with girls!
2. Conversation topics are different. Of course I talk to my guy friends about how things are with them (their relationships, family, what’s going on with their friends, etc.) but the amount of time we spend covering these topics versus, say, a new superhero movie, or some interesting article we read, or a project we’re working on is much, much less. There is also a lot more joking and teasing than with girlfriends. (Though not necessarily any more laughing.) Same quality talking, just different issues.
Thanks so much for stopping by Terra! Make sure to check out the rest of the tour stops to see all ten differences! One lucky reader has the chance to win a finished copy of the book! Just enter using the rafflecopter widget below. US only. Must be 13 years old or older.
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