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A review by readingspells
Becoming by Michelle Obama
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I started reading my copy of this book a couple of years ago but set it aside about a quarter of a way through and never went back to it. When I saw it on Borrow Box I knew the time was now and I was so right.
The audio is bloody brilliant. Her voice is so lovely and like a lot of memoirs the author reading it themselves adds a personal element you don't get when just reading it. You can hear her voice shift and change slightly as she covers more difficult and emotional topics. It just brings the whole thing alive.
I have always liked and respected the Obama's and this book only increased that feeling for me. She is smart and wise and funny and honest and real. She talks about being a daughter and a sibling and a Mother and a wife in such a relatable way but also about being herself, how she finds her own identity. Her love for Barak is absolutely evident too. I mean you only have to see them together to know it is real but this book gives powerful voice to that love and bond.
I found this book an oddly emotional read both as a woman but also from the viewpoint of the world we are in today and how far we have fallen from having people like the Obama's in political office. I found myself sad and bitterly angry at a world that has enabled misogynistic, racist, narcissists who are only interested in their own self serving greed into power both here and the USA.
The epilogue at the end even made me cry a little as she is so open and passionate in her words about making a difference and also how we 'become' that it is always a work in progress. The whole book is inspiring and absorbing and it is a easy five star from me.
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
~ Michelle Obama
The audio is bloody brilliant. Her voice is so lovely and like a lot of memoirs the author reading it themselves adds a personal element you don't get when just reading it. You can hear her voice shift and change slightly as she covers more difficult and emotional topics. It just brings the whole thing alive.
I have always liked and respected the Obama's and this book only increased that feeling for me. She is smart and wise and funny and honest and real. She talks about being a daughter and a sibling and a Mother and a wife in such a relatable way but also about being herself, how she finds her own identity. Her love for Barak is absolutely evident too. I mean you only have to see them together to know it is real but this book gives powerful voice to that love and bond.
I found this book an oddly emotional read both as a woman but also from the viewpoint of the world we are in today and how far we have fallen from having people like the Obama's in political office. I found myself sad and bitterly angry at a world that has enabled misogynistic, racist, narcissists who are only interested in their own self serving greed into power both here and the USA.
The epilogue at the end even made me cry a little as she is so open and passionate in her words about making a difference and also how we 'become' that it is always a work in progress. The whole book is inspiring and absorbing and it is a easy five star from me.
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
~ Michelle Obama