All My Friends Are Superheroes

by ANDREW KAUFMAN | Romance |
ISBN: 1552451305 Global Overview for this book
Registered by hunnyb of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 11/21/2007
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2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by hunnyb from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Went back to get this book from my favourite bookshop because the cover stuck in my mind. And it sounds so charmingly whimsical. Plus it's Canadian - what more could you want? :)

Journal Entry 2 by hunnyb from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, November 22, 2007
Short and oh so sweet. From the back cover: "All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotised to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she's sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's there, or he loses her forever."

Imaginative, witty, whimsical - enjoyed it a lot. Andrew Kaufman, write more books!!

Journal Entry 3 by Miss-Owl on Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Another book plundered from hunnyb's bookshelves. Although I like to think that I'm taking them on a little holiday... :)

Thanks for the loan!

Journal Entry 4 by Miss-Owl on Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Hunnyb, when I said I was taking your book on a holiday, I didn't mean to Thailand! I meant to my place!!

Anyway, just to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this whimsical, piquant, cheerful little book. Loved the fascinating and insightfully accurate cavalcade of superheroes, though there were a few I thought must be comprehensible to the US market ('cause they weren't at all to me!).

I must just quote this little bit:

MISTRESS CLEANASYOUGO
The most powerful superhero of all, the one everyone wishes they were, is Mistress Cleanasyougo. At the end of every day she folds her clothes. She nver leaves scissors on the table, pens with no ink are thrown in the trash, wet towels are always hung up, dishes are washed directly after dinner and nothing is left unsaid.

Gorgeous.

I'm lending this to a friend who is in town this week for our egregious COGE course (I wonder what I did to be punished this way). She'll return it on Friday, unless you really want this book to travel further? - and she'll take it back to Orange, where we may possibly find - dare I say it? - a new member of Bookcrossing! :)

Journal Entry 5 by Miss-Owl on Sunday, January 6, 2008
This book is back with me. My friend devoured it over the course of some very boring lectures and didn't have internet access while in Sydney, anyway. I have yet to lure her into the BC world... but I'll keep trying! :)

Edited 23/5: returning to hunnyb today. Two non-BC readers have read, but not journalled :(

Never mind, it's a free country :)

Thanks for the loan, hunnyb - a great read.

Journal Entry 6 by hunnyb from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, May 24, 2008
Back with me now :) Thanks!

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