Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Rosenthal

I read a review of this book when it first came out and kept it in the back of my mind for a while. It's an unusual format, where the author has taken about 200 random facts or memories about herself and given each one a heading, then alphabetized them. The facts and memories were half wonderful and half boring. I found myself smiling at certain ones with familiarity and wondering why she included other ones. There was a bit of an egocentric feel to parts of the book, but it was autobiographical, so I suppose it's to be expected. I think a good English class in high school could read this book then ask students to write their own 10-page Encyclopedia of their life.