Last fall, the electronic news organization Politico started a little parlor game in which people take turns predicting sentences from yet-to-be-released books. It started with Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars. At lunch one day, a table of Washington insiders took guesses at what snip-its about Administration officials might appear in the soon-to-be released book.
Vanity Fair joined the fun and put the question out to its online readers. Hilarity ensued. One reader submitted: “Biden had ducked behind the oversized leather chair where Bo had curled up to sleep. He rubbed the dog behind his ears as he put a manila folder in his mouth.”
Yesterday, crediting the game Politico had started, Vanity Fair kicked off another round, this time inviting readers to guess what sentences might appear in the forthcoming memoir by 20-year-old Bristol Palin, set to hit shelves in June.
Comments put forth so far include: “Going through something like that always makes me think of an old expression: ‘That was really hard—really hard—but I’m so much more of an adult now’” and my personal favorite, “I was like, ‘Levi,’ and then he was like, ‘What?’”
That a 20-year-old would have lived enough life to fill 300 pages of memoir confounds me. Even having a mother making a controversial splash in the national spotlight, becoming a mother herself at 18, having an ex-boyfriend who posed for Playgirl and competing on Dancing with the Stars, that still leaves a couple of hundred pages to fill. For gosh sakes, I have sweaters older than Bristol Palin.
Amazon has just begun taking pre-orders for the book that is for now named “Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir.”
Use your imaginations and guess what might be in it. You can follow the comments Vanity Fair’s readers submit and contribute your own comments there. Otherwise, if you’d prefer to scratch your creative itch before a more limited audience, feel free to do it here. What sentences would you expect to read in the memoir?
I’ll start. “One morning I shot a caribou in my pajamas.” What he was doing in my pajamas I’ll never know.
Word Nymph 
Growing up we were only allowed four hours of television a day. This unfair restriction did, however, leave more time to hangout at the Mall and smoke weed behind the cineplex.
Oh I think it is best that I do not even get started on this topic 🙂
It caused me no end of despair to learn she might be publishing a book. But as of yesterday, that’s apparently questionable. Amazon removed the pre-order page and neither Bristol nor the publisher will confirm that a book is in the works. This gave me temporary hope, but I was filled with despair again when I read that she’s moved on from wanting to be a writer — to wanting to be a politician! Yes, she said she might run for office one day. Now I prefer to predict what her next career aspiration will be. I have to go with princess or ballerina….
“While I was practicing the samba, mom was up on the roof with binoculars preparing her foreign policy speech.”