I’m behind on reading this for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’m not a big reader of autobiographies so it wasn’t a book I would naturally reach for, and secondly I thought it might be a bit too heavy on American politics, not something I know a lot about, so my thinking was that it probably wasn’t for me.
But I kept
hearing good things about it and I thought it might be worth a try. After I’d
got over my initial shock of reading an autobiography I found that I was really
enjoying it. It was a very engaging read and provided a window on a world that
I didn’t know about. What came across to me was how much both Michelle Obama
and Barack Obama cared about what they were doing, and how genuine they seemed
to be. Whilst I was reading Becoming I was also reading other books and
coincidently the authors of those books mentioned meeting the Obamas. What I
thought was great was that the impression that those authors had of the Obamas
was the same impression that I was getting as I read Becoming.
The focus
is really on her family and what they went through together. It is very
readable and one that I would recommend. Her life is inspiring but also human and relatable. Oh and there was an easy balance on
the American politics thing, I wasn’t overwhelmed and I could understand what
was going on – always a good thing!
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