The eye-rolling starts here

A.J. Jacobs annoyed reviewers everywhere* with his last book, THE KNOW-IT-ALL. Now, he’s baaaaaack, and this time, it’s biblical:

KNOW-IT-ALL author AJ Jacobs’ THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY: One Man’s

Humble Quest to Obey the Bible as Literally as Possible, recounting his

attempt to follow every rule in the Old and New Testaments, from the

Ten Commandments right on down to growing a beard, to Geoff Kloske at

Simon & Schuster, in a significant deal, for publication in 2006,

by Sloan Harris at ICM (world).

I hope someone clues him in that in order for this to work, he has to make aliyah ASAP since a whole lot of those rules — otherwise known as mitzvot — can’t actually be obeyed if you’re living outside of Israel. Although I would totally buy this book just to see pictures of Jacobs sacrificing red heifers at a makeshift altar…or literally cooking a kid in its mother’s milk…or observing the laws of niddah…

I better stop before I start giggling too much.

*Contrary to popular belief, the NYTBR is not “everywhere,” nor is Joe Queenan. Just like New York is a mere provincial town, but that’s easy to forget, too…