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Michelle Obama

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Michelle Obama is of course admirable, and she has had such an interesting life, but so much of the interesting part played out in front of our collective lives that there is not much for her to reveal in the last half of the book. Obama writes well, is always gracious, and gets across the hard part of living in the White House. She always chooses to say gracious things. The most interesting part of the book, the truly electric part, is when she meets and falls in love with Barack. She conveys how he influenced her own decisions to swerve from the expected life she’d groomed herself for and to live for bigger goals that she was more passionate about. She also helps us see the nature of Barack beyond the caricatures that fame and politics has drawn in such heavy ink.

J'ai été très passionnée par la première partie sur l'enfance, les études et le début de carrière de Michelle. Même pas parce que j'étais curieuse de l'enfance d'une première dame, mais parce que c'était fin et bien raconté, pas mal de passages sur le racisme ou l'illégitimité qu'elle relate à être l'une des rares femme noire dans un environnement blanc, son ardeur au travail qui force l'admiration..

Après je dois dire qu'à partir du moment où elle rencontre Obama, elle est beaucoup moins dans l'auto-analyse, c'est "nous", son couple.
J'ai été agacée par Barack parce qu'on dirait en la lisant qu'il lui a pas spécialement dit qu'il comptait faire de la politique avant qu'ils se marient. Alors c'est peut être juste mon interprétation, mais c'est frustrant qu'il soit pas souvent là alors qu'elle élève leurs enfants. J'aurais bien aimé lire un passage où ils en discutent à l'avance.

Et je n'ai pas pu vraiment me laisser toucher par toute la partie politique, parce que je lisais tout en me demandant quelle est la part de story-telling là-dedans. C'était pas désagréable, et globalement j'ai apprécié ma lecture, mais je lisais vite pour finir.

Y'a quand même quelques petits passages bien exotiques pour un lecteur français, du style "on disait le bénédicité le soir", "je me sens protégée par tous ces gens qui disent prier pour nous" ou encore le respect dû aux soldats "qui se battent pour notre liberté" que je retiens parce que vraiment je me demande si une famille présidentielle US pourra être athée un jour ! C'est fascinant le rôle social des Eglises aussi. Enfin bref, je m'arrête là !
hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Michelle Obama’s autobiography was a lovely read. It was honest and refreshing. Something one appreciates in this bleak political environment. Oh, I also love how she tore into Trump with a dignified, graceful and strong way. Definitely my favourite FLOTUS.

Love and miss Michelle Obama’s grace and intelligence in the White House! Such a fascinating story of her life and it was AWESOME hearing it read by Michelle herself!

this book was an absolute treat to consume through audiobook! i haven’t read a memoir in a very long time and i’m glad this was the one to bring me back into the magic of the genre. michelle obama describes her life in a provocatively reflective manner, imploring that the reader join her in thought as she recounts her life experiences and the way she adapted to the obstacles that she was dealt, and more importantly, how she grew from them. there were so many moments in this read that i won’t forget, among them a lesson that no matter what happens, no matter how others see you, no matter what you have or haven’t accomplished, no matter how you were born or what you were born into, you can always keep becoming, and often times, life really is what you make of it. you can always salvage your own growth. what i really loved about this book is that, while i could relate to michelle in her struggles of being the alienated smart kid in class who was sometimes targeted for not conventionally belonging, she also allowed me to see my future self in adult michelle obama, successful and happy in the place that she has crafted for herself with her own drive and the help of her loved ones’ direction. the following are my favorite quotes, all of which will remain in my memory forever—

“everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”

“it was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’ve never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. your world shifts, but you’re asked to adjust and overcome, to play your music the same as everyone else.”

“any worries could wait, i figured, because ‘we’ were an ‘us’ now, and we were happy. and happy seemed like a starting place for everything.”

“for me, it was a strange, quiet revelation—they were me as i’d once been, and i was them as they could be.”

If you're even just a passing fan of Michelle Obama, I cannot recommend this book enough. Getting to know her through her own experiences - and in her own words - is so inspiring. She shares her triumphs, her struggles, and her everyday existence so that you get a full picture of a real person. Michelle is clearly so driven, so thoughtful - I feel like this is a book I could return to when I'm feeling a little lost and want to be reminded that everyone, even the FLOTUS, feels that way sometimes. "Am I good enough? Yes."

Me ha gustado mucho, hasta los agradecimientos me han gustado.

Una mujer maravillosa, que me ha dado a conocer muchas cosas que desconocía.
Todo un descubrimiento su historia y la de Barack. Además de una manera muy sencilla y clara. Una mujer sin pelos en la lengua.

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