Valerie's Reviews > Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Kind of cute; got old quickly.

And for all you wise-crackers out there - that's my review of the book, not my own six-word memoir.

Smith magazine, inspired by Hemingway's six-word story "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn" invited its readers to submit their own six-word memoirs. The results were published in this book, along with some submissions by famous writers and celebrities.

Here are some that I liked:

Couldn't cope so I wrote songs. Aimee Mann

Would you like fries with that? Scott Northrup

Well, I thought it was funny. Stephen Colbert

I wrote a poem. Nobody cared. Joe Heaps Nelson

Became more like myself every year. Eddie Sulimurski

It seems like an essential part of reviewing this book is posting your own six-word memoir, so mine would be:

Awaken. Eat. Love. Drink. Sleep. Repeat.