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#MrKnowItAll #AugustGrrrl

#AugustGrrrl #MrKnowItAll Catching up with yesterday's prompt. I had the movie Matilda on this past weekend and I think that her father, Harry Wormwood, is quite the Mr. Know It All (and a crook & awful parent to boot) despite the fact that Matilda is much smarter than he is.

Not quite #MrKnowItAll but close: this was one of my first bails of last year: the pretentiousness of the title should've been warning enough. Sheesh, what obnoxiously self-important twaddle! (I'm aware that she has many fans, and who knows maybe I'd respond differently to other of her stuff but the few pieces I read here were mindblowingly awful.)

Day 29 #AugustGrrrl Playing catch-up from yesterday ~ Malcolm Gladwell is the best kind of #MrKnowItAll 🤓He's legit ~ a real genius and wonderful writer 🙌🏻💚😊

A day late, but it just occurred to me that Casaubon is a #MrKnowItAll. Though on my second read, which was a few years after my first, I began to sympathise with him and his thwarted intellectual ambitions. It's hard, getting older and dealing with scholarly block while surrounded by idealistic young things who are confident in their rightness in the way only the young can be, the world being their oyster and all. #AugustGrrrl @Cinfhen

#AugustGrrrl #day29 #MrKnowItAll When Breq was the Justice Of Toren s/he was the epitome of Mr Know-it-all. With her AI mind overseeing the whole, huge, battalion ship, plus all the "corpse soldiers" under her control, s/he has the ability to be in 1,000s of places at once. When she ends up being trapped in just one body when her ship is blown up, the limits on her awareness almost drives them crazy.

My pick for #mrknowitall is Bob in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files. Literally a spirit of intellect, he has quite a healthy opinion of his vast stores of knowledge. Since he inhabits a skull and occasionally possesses/haunts Harry's long-suffering cat, Mister, in order to leave the house, I'm claiming him for #ahauntinglikenoneother as well.

#augustgrrrl #backtoreading

No one could call Peter Grant #mrknowitall but that is part of what made this book so enjoyable. Loved the humor and glad that the second book in the series is already on my shelves. #augustgrrrl

Some doctors are great, but others come off as #mrknowitall (or I guess, dr.knowitall 😜) even when it's clear they have no clue what's going on. In this novel, the main character has a mysterious and sudden brain ailment, and while finding his correct diagnosis appears to be the ultimate goal, the novel suggests how it would really explain so little about the particular path his thoughts and emotions take as a result. #augustgrrrl @Cinfhen

If you are stranded on Mars being a #mrknowitall #augustgirrrl is essential for survival 😂