Book # 5: The Know-It-All

One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A.J. Jacobs

In this book, A.J. tackles reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. This daunting task is made fun through his insertion of stories from his life and connections between the entries. Not an extremely fast read, as you would expect from such a quest, but there are lots of interesting facts to be learned. He does a good job at keeping it entertaining and balanced between fact and story. He works for Esquire magazine, so he can tend to be a little liberal in his viewpoints. He also wrote, The Year of Living Biblically, where he tried to do what The Bible said literally. I read this one last year, which was what made me interested in reading this book.

Next book to read:
What Every Mom Needs
By Elisa Morgan & Carol Kuykendall