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Original Title:	Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
ISBN:	1400080460 (ISBN13: 9781400080465)
Edition Language:	English

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 5623 Users | 982 Reviews

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In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal has ingeniously adapted the centuries-old format of the encyclopedia to convey the accumulated knowledge of her lifetime in a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.

An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

Cross-section of ordinary life at this exact moment

A security guard is loosening his belt.
A couple is at a sushi restaurant with some old friends. They are reminiscing. In the back of their minds, they are thinking of being home.
A woman is trying to suck on a cherry Lifesaver but will end up biting it in six seconds.
A little boy is riding the train home with his dad after spending the day together at his office.
A man is running back into a grocery store to look for a scarf he dropped. He will leave with the phone number of a woman who will become his wife.

Words the author meant to use
Flair, Luxurious, Panoply, Churlish, Dainty, Folly

Wines that go nicely with this book

reds: Marcel Lapierre Morgon (France), Alario Dolcetto d’Alba Costa Fiore (Italy) whites: King Estate Pinot Gris (Oregon), Landmark Chardonnay Overlook (California

Book, standing in the bookstore holding a

If I am standing there with the book in my hand, one of three things has already happened: Friend recommended it. Read a good review. Cover caught my eye. I can appreciate a cool cover. But it’s like the extra credit part of a test—it only enhances an already solid grade. Getting it right won’t help if most everything else is wrong. And getting it wrong won’t hurt if most everything else is right. (There are countless books I cherish whose covers I don’t like too much, or cannot even now recall.) The interior of the book—the terrain of its pages, where all those words took me, the tiny but very real spot it ultimately occupies in my mind—that becomes the book. Next I go to the flaps. The front flap needs to intrigue/not bore me, and the bio needs to tell me just enough about the author. I’ll do my best to extract the author’s entire existence from their 2-X-2 inch photo.

Off to the back cover. I’ll be momentarily impressed when I see a blurb by a hot writer like ____, but I know that it is just as likely that I’ll like the book as hate it regardless of these quotes. I look at them in a more voyeuristic way, like a literary gaper’s delay: Wow, the author knows So and So. Bet they send each other clever text messages. Really the only thing I can gauge from the blurbs is my own pathetic jealousy level.

To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a minute inside. I’ll glance at the first couple pages, then flip to the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It’s like dating, only with sentences. Some sentences, no matter how well-dressed or nice, just don’t do it for me. Others I click with instantly. It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word choice (tangerine). We’re meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.

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Title	:	Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Author	:	Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2005 by Broadway Books (first published January 25th 2005)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Humor. Biography

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Ratings: 3.92 From 5623 Users | 982 Reviews

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I rarely give a book a perfect 10 on the ratings scale, but I have to do so in this case. Its not that the book itself is perfect, nor the author extremely engaging in her own right, but I found the experience of reading it to be a magical one. I was thoroughly inspired at every sitting, my creativity just bursting upon reading each entry. I want to create an encyclopedia of my own life! And for that boost I applaud Rosenthal. I am viewing my world with new eyes and a notepad in hand. No other

This book was so quirky and random that I couldnt help loving it.It was rather bittersweet to read the authors insight on the ordinary after reading about her death and her article to find her husband a new wife. I must read more of her work.Dont expect this to read like s novel or normal memoir. It is snippets in alphabetical order. Very fun and insightful.

Funny, quirky, engaging, at times poignant, and always spot on. AKR is a keen observer of details and human nature. I don't know how many times I was nodding like "YES! She NAILED IT." Especially the entry on lost items and assuming her amazing cleaning lady pocketed them. I've been guilty of that type of thing many a time.

A nice, quick read. This is the type of book you keep in your bag to read in waiting rooms and long lines - the short encyclopedia-like entries make the book easy to skip around in and start and stop reading without getting lost. Several of the entries are very poignant, and some are sad, but most of them are just really random and funny. "ENCOURAGEMENT, EXERCISE VIDEO INSTRUCTOR WHO TRIES TO GIVE:When the instructor on an exercise video says great! and good job! and yes, that's it!, it's so

A happy Memoir...all through this book I kept saying, "That's me! I do that!" and it was weirdly validating and hilarious.

I received this book as a Christmas gift from M. "Open it," she talk-whispered.In it, a note scribbled on a piece of notepad from my most recent business trip:"This must seem weird- not something you asked for. Powell's had Sherman Alexie write a blog about what he was giving people for Christmas. I thought he'd send it to you if he knew. xo"I burst into HappyChristmasTears, and she asked what was wrong. Nothing, I assured her. I just really love it.---I've just finished reading it today,

If I wanted to be cliché, I might write, "Amy Krouse Rosenthal, in her unusual memoir, turns the ordinary life into the extraordinary life." But I'd be totally wrong. There is nothing "extraordinary" about her life as it is catalogued in the encyclopediac entries that comprise this book, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth reading. In fact, Rosenthal's book isn't simply original in its approach and hard to put down, it captures the harmless (and shameless) self-aggrandizing we partake in as we