Becoming by Michelle Obama
I’ve decided that Michelle Obama is on the top of my list of people I’d like to sit next to on an airplane. Chris Hadfield is also on that list, and Barack Obama as well–although Michelle comes out on top. I’d obviously heard about Michelle Obama’s book Becoming (2018) when it first came out, but it took me awhile to get around to it. I already had a long reading list, and I do tend to avoid political books. I picked up this one because Obama is […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
This was a pick for my IRL book club in the spring, and I’m so glad! I don’t know if I ever would have picked it up otherwise, due to my avoidance of both political books and memoirs, unless they come suuuper highly recommended. (Sidenote: I love my IRL book club. It’s like having a bimonthly Galentine’s Day.) Mostly, Michelle Obama is such a good writer! She is t a l e n t e d. Her book also fits into my memoir sweet spot, […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
I am probably the last person to review Michelle Obama’s near perfect memoir, Becoming, but being late to the party is better than missing it entirely. I achingly miss the Obamas and spending this time with Michelle was something of a salve. I took longer than I needed to to read this one because I didn’t want it to end. Michelle Robinson had a happy childhood in Chicago. She adored her older brother, Craig, and is still very close to him. She learned a lot from […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Let me just put this shocker out there: I voted for Obama. Big fan. However, I am not the most politically involved so I wasn’t tuned in to all the goings on of his administration, and also, would not say I had a strong opinion of Michelle Obama. I found her to be a classy lady, and envy her super toned arms, but by and large wasn’t focused on her at all during her eight years in the White House. Her book has been heralded […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Best for: People who enjoy autobiographies that don’t feel overly edited or ghost written. In a nutshell: Former (sob) First Lady Michelle Obama tells her story, from early childhood through her departure from the White House. Worth quoting: “This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path — the my-isn’t-that-impressive path — and keep you there for a long time.” “…because having been brought up in a family where everyone always showed […]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
It is a well-documented fact that I am a library fiend, borrowing anything and everything I can get my digital hands on, but this one? This one I own. And will own forever and will display in a place of pride and fight the urge to build an alter to and oh god please come back. This book is pretty much everything you need it to be (except the part at the end where she flatly says she will never run for office which I […]
