Becoming by Michelle Obama, an account of the first lady’s life before and in White House, her marriage with one of the most favorite presidents of the United States, and a, for the most part, a safe narrative of the Obama’s achievements that fail to evoke inspiration.
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While the book started great with depicting Michelle Obama’s as an ambitious young lady, talented and hardworking, somewhere with the start of Barak Obama’s political career, it all seemed to fade away.
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I felt, in the end, it was an attempt to portray her as someone much more than a First Lady and although the book describes her as deriving her self worth not only as an accessory to her husband’s career, it felt more of a political memoir where the focus was on the achievement’s of the Obamas in their tenure. In a way, I was disappointed in seeing so less of Michelle Obama as an inspiring person with her own ambitions and aspirations.
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Genre: Non-Fiction, Politics, Memoir, Black-History
Reading Difficulty: ⭐⭐⭐/5
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