“Whole lifetimes happen in people’s lives everyday…”
Not Quite What I was Planning, is a compilation of memoirs in six words. The book was compiled by “Smith Magazine”, and originated as a reader contest. Eventually the submissions, by everyday people as well as celebrities, were published. It was an interesting read, and some of the memoirs were thought provoking, but it got old pretty quickly. I feel that this would be an interesting conversation-piece, or a coffee-table book, but I don’t believe that it was intended to be read as though it were a novel.
Heart in Africa. Body in Canada.
Saw the world; now where’s home?
— Hannah Silverstein in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Even the quietest sounds make noise.
— Paul Boggan in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
I colored outside the lines.
— Jacob Thomas in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Ate caterpillars. Still won’t grow up.
— Chris Jackson in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Found great happiness in insignificant details.
— Alisdair McDiarmid in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Sometimes I’m crazy, sometimes I’m sane.
— Bella Von Phul in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Afraid of everything.
Did it anyway.
— Ayse Erginer in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
No words can describe my life.
— John Baldridge in Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
