A review by dorothy_gale
Becoming by Michelle Obama

5.0

Great book! I give it 4.99 stars. I chose it because I have tickets to see her in person on 2/8/2019; I probably otherwise wouldn't have ever read it since it's 19 hours long. I finished in 16 days, which is pretty quick for me. I love that it goes into so much detail about so many things. I also found several surprising parallels between her life and mine, down to the smell of her mom cleaning with pine sol. I did find that she wavered with her faith in her husband's odds AND, how could anyone not? On the political side, I do have a smidgen of remorse for being so checked out during their 8 years in the white house, but given what I had going on at the time, I wouldn't change a thing. So I'm glad she wrote this book and that it is so popular AND that she's on a tour. I've not read any of her husband's books, and hers was enough to have me peek at them but I don't really feel driven to pick them up yet. It was cool that she narrated this herself -- I love when authors do that. She seems authentic.