Not Quite What I Was Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not Quite What I Was Planning write by Larry Smith. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Not Quite What I Was Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: 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 readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. From 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-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak write by Larry Smith. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared.” — Denver Post Love wounds the heart and soul . . . From the editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes another collection of terse true tales—this time simple sagas exploring the complexities of the human heart. Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak contains hundreds of personal stories about the pinnacles and pitfalls of romance. Brilliant in their brevity, these insightful slivers of passion, pain, and connection capture every shade of love and loss—six words at a time.
It All Changed in an Instant
It All Changed in an Instant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It All Changed in an Instant write by Larry Smith. This book was released on 2010-01-05. It All Changed in an Instant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared. Be warned, though. If you plan to lend out your copy, start out with two. Once it leaves your hands you’ll never see it again.” —Denver Post (on Not Quite What I Was Planning) The editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning are back with its much-anticipated sequel, It All Changed in an Instant. With contributions from acclaimed authors like Malcolm Gladwell, Frank McCourt, Wally Lamb, Isabel Allende, Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, and James Frey, and celebrities like Sarah Silverman, Suze Orman, Marlee Matlin, Neil Patrick Harris, Ann Coulter, and Chelsea Handler, It All Changed in an Instant presents a thousand more glimpses of humanity. . . six words at a time. In the vein of the popular Post Secret books, It All Changed in an Instant, in the words of Vanity Fair, “will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists.”
The Best Advice in Six Words
The Best Advice in Six Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best Advice in Six Words write by Larry Smith. This book was released on 2015-11-03. The Best Advice in Six Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspirational gift book full of advice written in six-word installments, building off of Smith's popular Six-Words platform and the success of his previous Six-Word books
The Moment
The Moment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moment write by Larry Smith. This book was released on 2012-01-03. The Moment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike, a tweet . . . sometimes all it takes is a single moment to redirect the course of an entire life. In the tradition of Smith magazine’s Not Quite What I Was Planning and the sensational Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak—and in the spirit of StoryCorps, the Moth, and This American Life—The Moment unveils everyday people’s inner lives in narratives of all shapes and sizes, with stories from six to 1,000 words, photographs, comics, illustrations, handwritten letters, and more. It’s enough to change your life forever.
