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marie6 's review for:
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
by Jimmy Carter
3.5 stars...
I particularly enjoyed the early chapters (1-3) about his youth/earlier years. I was dead impressed by his work ethicand was particularly impressed by an event he described from his childhood about something he did in order to get back to helping his father on the farm after an injury, impressed and mildly horrified that is... Seriously 10 yr old belting his arm to a fence to drain pus from his own wrist is much more badass than I would have seen Carter as, but perhaps he was influenced by tales of his grandfather Billy whose own "get back to it" farm story is on the book's first or second page . I didn't care for some parts of the book finding them a bit dull, but overall admired the sentiment behind several things. Carter was significantly more interesting than I would have assumed. There were a few photos of paintings Carter made in some chapters and this was a bit interesting, but also not particularly... however, I suppose his art and poetry were a distinct side of him he wanted to portray. This was not a direct recommendation but my daughter (who is very obsessed with US presidents and related trivia) asked/challenged me to read a book about a president before my birthday... this pledge definitely kept me from retiring the book when I soured a bit on it (it is a bit mediocre at times and tediously references other biographies of him for more on this or that topic). Also I certainly got an appreciation for him, I never would have otherwise had... so it wasn't a loss I reckon.
I particularly enjoyed the early chapters (1-3) about his youth/earlier years. I was dead impressed by his work ethic