Here are the two memoirs from the book that best describe ME: I thought and thought until my thinker was sore (about 47 seconds!) then decided to let someone else do the work for me. It's quite a challenge to sum up one's life in six words. "Discovered moral code via Judy Blume." Beth Greivel "Was father, boys died, still sad." Ronald ZalewskiĪnd a few of special interest to Goodreads members: "Everyone who loved me is dead." Ellen Fanning "Ex-wife and contractor now have house." Drew Peck "Giraffe born to a farm family" Grant Langston "Perpetual work in progress, need editor." Sherry Fuqua-Gilson "Started small, grew, peaked, shrunk, vanished." George Saunders "Found great happiness in insignificant details." Alisdair McDiarmid The stories they (briefly) told were philosophical: From published writers, celebrities and undiscovered authors came the responses. Writer.ĭuring NaNoWriMo 2006, SMITH magazine issued a challenge - write a six-word memoir. We undercover agents need mental toughness. Became black sheep.Īnything’s possible with an extension cord. My family is overflowing with therapists.įollowed white rabbit. See below:ĭanced in Fields of Infinite Possibilities. The 6-word experiment produced some interesting results. Sometimes funny, a few placed perfectly to cause loss of consciousness every few pages.Ī must-acquire for those facing airplane travel, and an essential distraction source for the "death meetings." My Review: I think this is the perfect book for, uhmmmm, browsing while you're stuck in Uncle John's sacred space. My Review: Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity-six words at a time. This deluxe edition has been revised and expanded to include more than sixty never-before-seen memoirs.įrom authors Elizabeth Gilbert, Richard Ford, and Joyce Carol Oates to celebrities Stephen Colbert, Mario Batali, and Joan Rivers to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell. The original edition of Not Quite What I Was Planning spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and thanks to massive media attention-from NPR to the The New Yorker-the six-word memoir concept spread to classrooms, dinner tables, churches, synagogues, and tens of thousands of blogs. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.įrom small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-size pieces. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way, too. When Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half-dozen words. Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity-six words at a time.
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