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Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
4.0
3.75 to 4 stars
Becoming is an autobiography written by Michelle Obama,former First Lady of the United States and wife of Barack Obama (America's 44th president)
It details her life before meeting Barack, meeting him,campaigning and then her First Lady experience.
I think that this book really gave me insight into what it was like in the White House. I am not an American but I have always been fascinated with American politics and it really shows the true struggles of things we think appear natural, such as speech writing and the fact that you will get slandered for saying something in your speech.
I also loved her journey to the law firm and how she was torn between quitting to do something she loved and get paid less or keep the steady flow of money going and keep doing a job that made her miserable.
Her advocacy as well is something I really enjoyed, her passion for helping really came through the pages. Her struggles with Motherhood to are covered, the book a lot more to her as a person then I would have thought.
Many accusations have been made about this being an Anti-Trump book.
Donald Trump is barely mentioned until the end, briefly about the 2012 election and again about the 2016 election and she expresses her opinions politely.
One thing that annoyed me in the book was the constant way of describing people by their skin colour. She would describe someone as a "nice African American"
Why do we need to know their skin colour.
She also when talking about her friends, said the following.
"My friends included a girl named Rachel, whose mother was white and had a British accent”
Why does this matter?
Overall, pretty interesting autobiography with some things that annoyed me.
Becoming is an autobiography written by Michelle Obama,former First Lady of the United States and wife of Barack Obama (America's 44th president)
It details her life before meeting Barack, meeting him,campaigning and then her First Lady experience.
I think that this book really gave me insight into what it was like in the White House. I am not an American but I have always been fascinated with American politics and it really shows the true struggles of things we think appear natural, such as speech writing and the fact that you will get slandered for saying something in your speech.
I also loved her journey to the law firm and how she was torn between quitting to do something she loved and get paid less or keep the steady flow of money going and keep doing a job that made her miserable.
Her advocacy as well is something I really enjoyed, her passion for helping really came through the pages. Her struggles with Motherhood to are covered, the book a lot more to her as a person then I would have thought.
Many accusations have been made about this being an Anti-Trump book.
Donald Trump is barely mentioned until the end, briefly about the 2012 election and again about the 2016 election and she expresses her opinions politely.
One thing that annoyed me in the book was the constant way of describing people by their skin colour. She would describe someone as a "nice African American"
Why do we need to know their skin colour.
She also when talking about her friends, said the following.
"My friends included a girl named Rachel, whose mother was white and had a British accent”
Why does this matter?
Overall, pretty interesting autobiography with some things that annoyed me.