Navigating the Journey of Motherhood

Ishrath begum: I love reading this book

India on Sep 21, 2023

Mohit: "Becoming" by Michelle Obama is a captivating and inspiring memoir that chronicles her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House. With authenticity and grace, she shares her triumphs, challenges, and the transformative power of resilience.

India on Jul 16, 2023

Adrix: Es una buena opción

Mexico on Jul 10, 2023

Alwaysbala: BARACK OBAMA IS GREAT INDEED!
AND HIS COUNTRY IS GREATER STILL!

Barack Obama became the forty-fourth president of America in 2009 at the age of forty eight. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Peace the same year. I did not know of any outstanding work he had done to deserve the high honour. Many in America and elsewhere were also of the same mind.

So I started avidly reading the recently published memoirs of his wife, Michelle Obama, when the book was gifted to me by the youngest of my three sons.

The 440-page closely printed book convinced me that Obama is indeed a great man, forget the question whether he deserved the prestigious prize or not.

Obama emerges from the book as an extraordinary person, a driven idealist consumed by an overwhelming desire to reduce the inequalities and inequities in the American society.

He reminded me of the sixteenth American President (1861-65), Abraham Lincoln, who has come to regarded as the greatest President because of his two achievements: preserving the Union and abolishing slavery.

Both the person's, Lincoln and Obama, appear to me as made of the same clay.

Both had come from economically...

India on Sep 27, 2021

Cliente: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🇬🇧 Becoming
🇬🇧 Michelle Obama

@michelleobama

🇬🇧 My sons gave me this wonderful book for Christmas after I told them thousands of times it would be the perfect present for me.

🇬🇧 In the first part of her book, "Becoming me", Michelle tells us about her childhood in a poor working family in South Chicago, her strong desire to be excellent at school, her father's disease, her studies in Princeton and Harvard. Her first meeting with Barack Obama, their love and differences. Her different jobs. Their travel to Kenya. In the second part, "Become us", she writes about her marriage, her husband's beginnings in politics, the births of their daughters Malia and Sacha (with IVF), the difficulties to be a working mum with a mostly absent husband. She tells us about the presidential campaign and her dislike of politics. The third and last part, "Becoming more" is about the election of Barack Obama in 2018, their life in the White House, how Michelle tries to give their daughters a "normal" life. The then First Lady explains her different projects and the achievements of her husband. The book ends with the last...

Spain on Sep 03, 2021

Kai Lee: Before reading “Becoming”, I only knew Michelle Obama as the First Lady of The United States (FLOTUS), that she is the first black woman in this position, that she looked elegant – smiling every time I saw her in a photo, and she made eloquent speeches in Presidential Campaigns and in Democratic National Conventions.

After reading “Becoming”, I felt as if a neighbor and friend had just shared the details of her remarkable life story with me, in down-to-earth prose, with occasional wit and humor. Her narratives include deeply moving passages about tragedies, interesting personal traits and amusing episodes, words of wisdom, as well as personal reflections. Even though her life is unique, some of her reflections may find resonance in many readers’ own experiences. Several examples are given below as inducements for reading the book. (Skip the examples if you have already read the book.)

A. Moving passages about tragedies:

1. When Michelle was only in fifth grade, one of her classmates, a boy named Lester McCullom, who lived nearby, had died in a fire that also killed his brother and sister.
2. Her fun-loving friend and roommate from her Princeton...

United States on Dec 06, 2020

imaloserdude: Michelle is not just the wife of Barack! She is so much more than that. At the moment I am writing this review, I notice that there are 11,946 reviews of this book at Amazon. I am joining this lengthy list not because I want to convince people to buy and read this book. As an author, I earn royalties on each book I sell, but I didn’t write this one. So, I don’t get any money from its sales on Amazon. I just want to share some of the glimpses that I got into who this author is. What follows are some of the “Aha!” moments I experienced as I listened to Michelle tell me about her life and the things that really matter.

Michelle is bold. She looked back on her experiences in second grade and called her teacher “incompetent.” Wow! That is quite an assertion. Was she? I don’t know. I was not there. As an educator for twenty years, I saw how students behaved in response to a lack of leadership, a lack of organization, lack of discipline and order. Chaos, and little/no learning. I get it. I have seen this first hand in nearby classrooms working with very poor minority children. Michelle was fortunate that she had a proactive mother who did something about it by...

United States on May 08, 2019