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It All Changed In An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous & Obscure (2010)

by Larry Smith(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061719439 (ISBN13: 9780061719431)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: I've never been one to read "collections", but when I read what this book was about I knew I had to own it. Never would I have imagined how much can be said in six words, and it's inspired me to try some "six-word-memoirs" myself. Took me about two hours to read it, with breaks, and it's just great. Still not sure whether I have a favourite memoir in here as they're all so real in their own way. Should look into getting the other books in this series!
review 2: I grabbed this book since I so enjoyed the first volume in this series, Not Quite What I Was Planning. I didn't enjoy this book as much. Maybe it was because so many of the entries seemed to repeat the same concepts, maybe because so many of the entries seemed to be making a point not writing a memoir,... more maybe it was because this volume contained so many celebrity entries that seemed to be going for a laugh. I don't know. Anyway, there were a number of memoirs that made me laugh, some that made me cry, and some that I just enjoyed. Frank McCourt mused that "The miserable childhood leads to royalties" and an author whom I can't recall wrote, "Bipolar, no two ways about it." I found that reading these six word memoirs a few at a time added to their impact. I'm sure that I will be looking for the next volume in this series fairly quickly. less

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