Books Are Jazzy

A reader lives a thousand lives before they die. The person who never reads lives only one.

First of all I'm sorry this always happens. That I finish a book (possibly promise a post about it) and then take weeks to get around to typing up my thoughts on it (as promised). But if you can look past this flaw of mine, here is what I wanted to share with the inter web and anyone on the other side of it après reading Michelle Obama's biography Becoming.

Let's start from the outside. Because let's be honest, we all know not to judge a book by it's cover, but we all do take the appearance of a book into consideration especially if it's a pretty one (and especially if it feels nice when you slide your fingers over it amiright). Now I feel like I built this up too much, but well, I just really enjoy the mint green tropical warm turquoise hue of the jacket -so gay!

Allright, then to what really matters, the inside. I really liked how the book was clearly cut into three parts, Becoming Me going into depth on Michelle's childhood, youth and family, Becoming Us which touches more on her relationship with President Barack Obama and their family, and Becoming More lighting the time of the Obama presidency and life after. I personally had picked up the book due to interest on the latter two parts and in continuation with that enjoyed them more. Equally, I had hoped they would've been the longer and more detailed of the three sections even as I did also appreciate getting a fair background on her youth.

In reading about Barack, I felt an even greater respect for his, and Michelle's, part grow. And unfortunately I felt even more upset by the sad truth of what his successor is like.. For example, in one chapter Michelle describes how warm and welcome she felt moving into the White House thanks to her predecessor's kind tips and advice on coping with the huge change in their everyday lives. She tells how she felt so thankful for these compassionate insights that she couldn't wait to pass them on to her follower. Reading this I felt my heart drop and a boil of anger just thinking how different the situation must have been from what she had anticipated and hoped for. Several other moments alike really caused something inside me to leak.


It was also tough and so interesting to hear about life in the White House. The safety risks, the luxury, the right out threats and the ways in which the girls of the house worked to make the big monument of a house feel more like home. The formalities and informalities, the absurdity of a girl from a completely ordinary home laughing at the ridicule of form with the Queen of England and the challenges of being in such a public position.

On a more technical note, one thing that gave me a cause to smile throughout the book was Michelle's witty, intelligent, funny and forward style of writing. I enjoyed her dignified vocabulary and brilliantly placed jokes -obvious ones and others a little more hidden ever so cleverly.

To put this review in wraps I want to in true high school book review style give my recommendation: this book was absolutely a gripping read that taught me a lot, was light to read and I would therefore encourage anyone to give it a go. (Unless maybe if you're already going to go into it with the absolute wrong attitude. Then I suggest you try to work that out first.)

-Anna
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Hi! We're Laura and Anna, two twenty-something women who love reading! We originally met each other in Atlanta, GA, over 10 years ago. Since then, we moved back to our home country of Finland, and now that we are in university, Anna lives in Turku, Finland, studying medicine and Laura lives in Asheville, NC, studying literature.

We read in a wide variety of genres, including all forms of young adult fiction and some adult books as well. Laura tries to focus on fantasy, but sometimes her coursebooks get in the way, whereas Anna is happy to read anything other than her textbooks!

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