Becoming: Michelle Obama | Book Review
For me, this is not ideal.
I rather have a physical Barnes & Noble store than the Kindle app (and during my youth, when I was just starting out in the world, I had so many books too just because I lived closed by to a B&N store!).
Another problem with e-books is that they are very sensitive to touchscreen, and most of the e-books don't have the added bonus of photos that are usually included in books like memoirs and such.
It took me a very long time to read this because I was easily distracted.
While reading on my phone, I usually get a notification from one of my emails or from one of my social media apps, and then I just end up forgetting that I was even reading the book at all. If I had gotten the printed version, I would have finished within a few days.
This was not one of my favorite memoirs (and I have many).
Obama seemed reserved, and she's definitely very ladylike and elegant, so I imagined she probably took a lot of reservations on what she was writing and how she would word things. However, I couldn't relate to her on a personal level; she's definitely more accomplished than I can ever even dream to be — but it was because her narrative didn't flow easily for me.
I think she's a great role model for her community though and for her people — she's the first African-American first lady of the USA.
She also went to a very prestigious ivy league school, despite being from a working class family. I suppose if Priscilla (Mark Zuckerberg's wife) ever wrote a memoir, I would be able to relate to her as a Chinese-American.
I did like reading about her upbringing and her early relationship with Barack, but I wasn't too interested in the various people in her life that she talked about (friends, classmates, neighbors, etc.).
Overall, I like it a lot better than the memoirs that a lot of politicians have.
