This is the guy who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and is an enormously popular YA novelist. Many times I've snagged his books cheap at the library sale and gotten more trade credit for them at the used bookstore. I thought I'd read this because I read a profile of him in The New Yorker and he seemed like a nice guy. Anyway, this is a collection of essays about a bunch of seemingly random things, each ending with a rating. (The concept was in a meandering conversation on a road trip with his brother.) Some of the topics: Halley's Comet, Lascaux cave, teddy bears, air-conditioning, The Hall of Presidents, Piggly Wiggly, plague, the QWERTY keyboard. He always has some autobiographical angle, some interesting trivia, and often some interesting insights, plus he often has good quotes from literature and poetry. His style reads easily and well. I was quite entertained. Chapters are short, so it's easy to pick up and put down. Recommended for a lot of random knowledge and if you want some light nonfiction you can read in short bursts.
the hands that guide me are invisible