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S'està carregant… Becomingde Michelle Obama
  
Books Read in 2019 (23) » 11 més No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Add not being married to a natural born US citizen to my list of things to be thankful for... ;-) (  ) giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 |  Overall the idea of the book is great! I’m nosy, so I like having insight into the lives of most people. I’m not sure if it’s because of the length of the book or the content but it took me close to 4 months to finish it. Michelle is still and forever will be a bomb as hell First Lady💕. Even more so from learning about her reasoning behind her work, but she gave up a lot to get to this point in my opinion. (  ) jastay | Jan 7, 2021 | Amazing, she is so full of optimism. Loved all the stories. ( ) FurbyKirby | Jan 5, 2021 | One that will sit with me for a while. A memoir that feels real but not sensational, one that celebrates the everyday ordinariness in each of us as well as the great potential. There are no "rah-rah you can be a superwoman!" mantras, but rather a deep understanding of what sacrifices one makes for your family and the "seesaw" of marriage. I loved the stories of the Robinsons, her deep love for her friends and her keen observations of place and time. I'm excited to see what this new season brings for her and wish her nothing but the best. (  ) RachellErnst | Jan 5, 2021 | I finally picked-up "Becoming" by Michelle Obama due to January's book for the currently reading book-club. I was lucky and got both the e-book and audiobook from my library through the Libby app. Mrs. Michelle Obama has a perspective on current events and the revelation of her past (and present) life experiences. She’s open, honest, and forthcoming. She told the truth of her life; she grew up surrounded by love in a city, Chicago, she loves, onward to an education that took her far. She has everything she wanted, family, a husband she loves, and now she is looking at her next adventure. The book succeeds in showing women they must find their voice and speak up and believe in themselves. Michelle has contributed to other potential first ladies by writing this book. Michelle was more active than many spouses of candidates in campaigning for their husbands… There have been many notable First Ladies in the last number of years, all of whom left their own marks on America. However, I can think of only one who stood out and sought to define herself independent of the role her husband brought as President of the United States. ( ) AvigailRGRIL | Dec 30, 2020 |
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.
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Here, for the first time, Michelle Obama describes the early years of her marriage as she struggles to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career. She takes us inside their private debate over whether he should make a run for the presidency and her subsequent role as a popular but oft-criticized figure during his campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their life inside the White House over eight momentous years--as she comes to know her country and her country comes to know her. [This book] takes us through modest Iowa kitchens and ballrooms at Buckingham Palace, through moments of heart-stopping grief and profound resilience, bringing us deep into the soul of a singular, groundbreaking figure in history as she strives to live authentically, marshaling her personal strength and voice in service of a set of higher ideals. In telling her story with honesty and boldness, she issues a challenge to the rest of us: Who are we and who do we want to become?"--Jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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