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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition)
Not Quite What I Was Planning SixWord Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure - Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition
Author: Larry Smith (Editor), Rachel Fershleiser (Editor)
Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. When Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, "For baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half-dozen words. — When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061713712
ISBN-10: 0061713716
Publication Date: 11/1/2008
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Harper
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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 buzzby avatar reviewed Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition) on + 6062 more book reviews
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About 800 6 word stories, are fun to read a few pages at a time. Didn't see many famous people beyond Sebastian Junger and Jane Goddall, not that it matters. I had quite a few favorites, including "Anything Possible - But I was tired", "Girlfriend is pregnant my husband said", "After you jump, the net appears", and "I colored outside of the lines"
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 reviewed Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition) on + 5 more book reviews
Love it! Short, quippy, interersting.
Suzyjal avatar reviewed Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition) on + 21 more book reviews
Tiny bites of reading; quite delicious!
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Funny, clever, touching - quick - enjoyed reading! ;)

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