Tag: Andrew Kaufman

• Quoted: All My Friends are Superheroes

  Okay, there’s this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special really doesn’t mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don’t treat her right.

  Being Tori

  09.17.16

  Books, Images, Quoted

  All My Friends Are Super Heroes, Andrew Kaufman, love story, novella, Quoted, TAKE IT!

• Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman

  Honestly, I’m not sure how he manages to do it—to weave magical realism so seamlessly with morality and truth—but he does it so convincingly that it takes a minute to understand what he’s writing about. He’s a genius. No. 7 on my challenge. I only just discovered Kaufman last year, but he’s quickly become one of…

  Being Tori

  09.12.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Andrew Kaufman, Book Challenge, Born Weird, Kennedy Recommended, literature, novel, TAKE IT!

• The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman

  I’m 100% convinced that everything Andrew Kaufman writes is pure gold. Absolutely genius. I don’t know how he’s able to say so much about love in such a short book, but he is incredibly successful in doing so. No. 14 on my challenge. Thank goodness—it would have been terrible for Nancy if she’d had to…

  Being Tori

  08.21.15

  Book Challenge 2015, Books, One-Liners

  Andrew Kaufman, Book Challenge, fiction, haha funny, Kennedy Recommended, novella, odd, romance, short read, TAKE IT!, The Tiny Wife

• Bookish Alphabet

  This seemed like fun, so I stole it from HiddenStaircase. It’s rather self explanatory. Author You’ve Read The Most Books From Either Janet Evanovich or Sandra Brown. Don’t judge me. I am a voracious reader of all sorts. Best Sequel Ever A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. Though technically not a sequel, it was the second book of his that I read about…

  Being Tori

  04.24.15

  Books, I wrote this

  A Wolf at the Table, Alessandro Baricco, Alexandre Dumas, All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman, Augusten Burroughs, BJ Novak, books, Cadillac Couches, CS Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Furiously Happy, Gabrielle Zevin, Guilia Enders, Gut, Harry Potter, Jeanette Walls, Jenny Lawson, JK Rowling, John Elder Robison, Kathleen Grissom, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lisa Genova, Look Me In the Eye, Marissa Meyer, One More Thing, Q&A, Sandra Brown, Sara Gruen, Silk, Sophie B. Watson, Still Alice, Thad Carhart, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Glass Castle, The Great Gatsby, The Kitchen House, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lunar Chronicles, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Una Lamarche, Unabrow, Water for Elephants, Winter

• All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman

  A humourous Rolodex of everyday super heroes and a wonderful tale of what we do to find and keep the ones we love. Recommended.

  Being Tori

  11.07.14

  Books, One-Liners

  All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman, novella, TAKE IT!