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Books Read in 2019 (31) » 19 més Black Authors (20) Favorite Memoirs (4) Books Read in 2021 (2,184) Read Next (3) Female Author (1,037) SHOULD Read Books! (121) Litsy Awards 2018 (119) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  mrklingon | May 1, 2023 |  Humble and proud is my way of describing Michelle Robinson Obama. She came from a humble, but proud family that sacrificed so she and her brother could get good educations. She has never lost sight of the plight of African Americans and other minorities in America and continues to work toward their advancement, as well as the health and welfare of children. She has never had an interest in politics and only became involved as it furthered her husband's career. I enjoyed reading about her insider perspectives, her campaign and White House highlights and her slips, also her concern for normalcy for their daughters while the family was under the microscope. Of particular interest to me was reading about her perspective of historical events that I can well remember. For me the book was a page turner; I loved it. (  ) mapg.genie | Apr 29, 2023 | An inspirational read. ( ) BookReviewsCafe | Apr 27, 2023 | Don't get me wrong, I found Michelle Obama's autobiography of 'an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey' deeply inspiring, and the Obamas are the only POTUS and FLOTUS I am interested in apart from the Kennedys, but I really struggled to get through Michelle's wordy and worthy life story. I enjoyed the first half of the book, covering Michelle's formative years in the South Side of Chicago, growing up in a normal, loving, working class family, and I admired her early ambition and honesty about what she achieved against what she really wanted to do with her life. Her meet-cute with Barack Obama at the city law firm where she worked was also endearing. But from her marriage onwards, I was could feel myself growing weary of her noble career goals and middle class concerns - so many projects and campaigns! I mean, good on her, but where's the drama? Her account of life in the White House, and understandable cynicism regarding the mercenary and malicious dark side of American politics, revived my interest, but still found myself skim-reading through her resume of FLOTUS programmes and speeches. The Obamas are a loving, caring, intelligent family and I admire both Barack and Michelle, but after reading so many biographies about Jack and Jackie Kennedy, who were such a fascinating blend of strengths and weaknesses, I was just a little bored reading about a woman who can do no wrong. (  ) AdonisGuilfoyle | Apr 12, 2023 | Replacement for missing book User # 14173  GHA.Library | Apr 10, 2023 |
The summary of Obama’s White House initiatives relies on promotional language and well-worn anecdotes, and the book’s final pages are just a shade away from an overt advertisement for the Obama Foundation. The memoir’s “bombshell” revelations, which the media has projected as revelations of the female condition writ large—a discussion of Obama’s use of fertility treatment to conceive her daughters, and of a period of her marriage in which “frustrations began to rear up often and intensely”—belie how much the rest of the text withholds. I suspect that some of Becoming’s power lies in the ways it employs the techniques of a novel more than those of a typical political memoir—in its honesty about human nature and ambivalence, yes, but also in its colorful and idiosyncratic details ... in its willingness to let anecdotes speak for themselves rather than pedantically spelling out their lessons. Becoming is frequently funny, sometimes indignant or enraged, and when Michelle describes her father’s early death from multiple sclerosis it turns rawly emotional. But despite how close we get to her voice here, it’s never quite close enough. She lets us into all kinds of memories, including tender recollections, romantic dates, and triumphant moments on the campaign trail. But for all her candidness, there is still a veil of privacy around the inner workings of this reluctant public figure. She draws the reader in, but pauses at arm’s length. Maybe this is all we can expect, in text, from this woman with so much presence. As she says herself, she’s more of a hugger. Even if Becoming is not always interesting, it is much more interesting than it needed to be to qualify as a successful first lady memoir. And as an example of how to walk the tightrope — how to seem charming but not like an intellectual lightweight; how to get things done without seeming threatening; how to do all of the impossible things we demand of women in general, of first ladies in particular, and of the first black first lady as an absolute — Becoming is a straight-up master class. Contingut aTé l'adaptacióTé una guia de referència/complement
El llibre de mem?ies n?tim, poders? i inspirador de l'ex-primera dama dels Estats Units. Protagonista d'una vida plena i d'?it, Michelle Obama ha esdevingut una de les dones m ic?iques i captivadores de la nostra era. Com a primera dama dels Estats Units d'Amr?ica i primera afroamericana en realitzar aquesta funci,? va contribuir a fer que la Casa Blanca assols? els n?dex d'obertura i pluralitat m grans de la hist?ia; es va erigir com a defensora destacada de les dones i les nenes als Estats Units i a la resta del mn?; va proposar canvis drs?tics amb la finalitat de promoure uns hb?its saludables i actius en les faml?ies i va acompanyar el seu marit quan el pas? passava per alguns dels moments m terribles de la seva hist?ia. Durant aquesta traject?ia, ens va ensenyar passos de ball, va fer furor al programa Carpool Karaoke i va aconseguir criar dues filles que toquen de peus a terra tot i l'implacable escrutini dels mitjans de comunicaci.? A les seves mem?ies, profundament reflexives i fascinants, Michelle Obama invita el lector a entrar dins el seu mn? tot narrant les experin?cies que han bastit el seu carc?ter: des de la infantesa a la zona del sud de Chicago fins als anys que va viure a la residn?cia m famosa del mn?, passant tamb ?per l'etapa de directiva empresarial, durant la qual va haver de compaginar la maternitat amb la vida professional. Fent gala d'una honestedat sense lm?its i d'un agut enginy, descriu els seus triomfs i les seves decepcions a l'esfera pb?lica i tamb ?a la privada, i narra sense embuts la hist?ia de la seva vida amb veu prp?ia. Cl?id, lc?id i revelador, Becoming un relat excepcionalment n?tim d'una dona de gran moralitat i vl?ua, que una vegada rere una altra ha superat les expectatives. La seva hist?ia ens inspira a seguir el seu exemple. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This is a terrific account of Michelle Obama's life, as well as a window into the history of the Obama presidency and the remarkable family that occupied the White House for 8 years. Inspiring to look forward to a day when such occupants will again grace its walls. Bittersweet, of course, since it is hard to resist considering the current occupant. (