The book I have chosen to do for my non-fiction read is "The Year of Living Biblically" by AJ Jacobs. Jacobs, who has written other memoirs such as "The Know It All" where he read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica, grew up in a secular family. However, he decided he wanted to know what it would be like to follow the bible literally for an entire year. The book is written in somewhat of a journal style and is divided by moths, with details going through each day.
The beginning of the memoir introduces many of the new and more commonly known rules/laws Jacobs will have to follow for the next year (do not lie, give to charity, pray daily, do not steal etc.) however, he also brings to light many of the lesser known laws such as no wearing of mixed fibres, having to play a ten string harp, no taking/creating pictures and to stone adulteres.
Jacobs looks into many different views and opinions within Catholicism but during the second month of the book he focuses on the theory of creation. He visits a creationist museum in Kentucky to do research where he finds they even have a display of dinosaurs with saddles.
The book is written in a humorous manner and provides an in depth look into what it would mean to follow the bible literally for a year.
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