I think you should. Robert Mueller told us all to read the report, and I actually bought a copy (along with several Donald Westlake book) in a San Francisco book store.
And while visiting the West Coast, I was visiting with Michelle, too. "Becoming" is what I read on the plane ride there and in the evening. I liked her story for lots of reasons, not the least of which that we both grew up in the Midwest in the same era. She’s younger than me, and Chicago is not Clinton, Iowa, nor Muscatine, Iowa—but it was interesting how, when Barak ran for president, Michelle Obama found that she could relate with Iowans.
Chicago is not that far away, and I felt some kinship with Michelle Obama.
The book has a point of view—it is written by a Democrat, clearly. But she is not exactly a political animal in the sense that her life partner is—in fact, I can sympathize with her desire to not be in politics, although I honestly would vote for Michelle Obama for just about anything.
She came from roots I can relate to, and struggled with her public life in terms that I could understand. I miss President Obama, partly because he had an eloquence sadly lacking in our current president. It’s nice to have proof that his life partner is similarly gifted.
I left my book in San Francisco. I hope my son and daughter-in-law will enjoy it—I did.
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| Loved browsing at City Lights in San Francisco--above, what came home with me, below, the store, a crowded, interesting quirky shrine to literacy. |
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