Thank you to my lovely sister Katie who gave me this book for Christmas. I remember hearing about it on NPR, thinking the premise was interesting (a book made entirely of questions), but wondering how it could carry out for a whole book. There's no narrative arc to be found and no real unifying theme that I could figure out, but it was fun and interesting nonetheless. Sometimes I would try to answer every question as I read it, but that became overwhelming after a while, so I started to focus on the ones that really intrigued me - like this one: "Wouldn't it be handy to have a life average affixed to a person, so that a homeless person might be hitting .171 and Lance Armstrong might be hitting .338, Michaelangelo maybe hit .401? If you had a life average, what do you think it might be?"

I kept dog-earing pages while I was reading every time I thought I came to my favorite question. This dog-ear lasted longest: "...can you slide up and down the spectrum of clulessness to clueness like a trombone or do you toot your one more or less dumb note all the livelong day?"

I had one strange experience while reading this book at the kitchen table during lunch. While I sat there reading question after question, Ella was next to me ASKING question after question: "When can we go on the slip and slide? Is it my birthday yet? What are we having for dinner? When will Sofie be home?" Should I transcribe this conversation and write my own book? Would you?