The Know-It-All

I hated this book to start. The format made me feel frustrated at its disjointedness. By the end, though, I had come to love the wry tone of the narrator and the ability to learn some random facts while enjoying a memoir.

Loved, this book! I'm a learner myself, so reading of someone else's adventure to learn as much as possible is definitely good entertainment in my book. :) Some parts were so humorous they made me laugh out loud, regardless of where I was, or if it was appropriate to be laughing out loud or not.

It was a unique memoir that follow's A.J.'s year of reading through the encyclopedia. He selects a few entries from each letter of the alphabet and tells us something – usually humorous – about it or his view of it, and weaves in stories from his childhood and his life as he goes through a year in which he and his wife are trying to conceive. I found it interesting, funny and educational.