This week's book
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
I have a confession, I actually read/listened to this book last month while I was sewing all the gifts I was making for the holidays, but I wanted to wait until President Biden was sworn in to post this. It's no secret that I have loved Barrack Obama for years. When everyone else in college was pulling for Hillary I was standing behind good old B-Rock. I even went to see him speak at my college, I got within five feet of him. Dreams of my Father (one of his other books) is amazing and one of the first political books I have ever been able to get through. When Michelle Obama's book came out recently, I devoured it and absolutely loved hearing about their marriage and early life. However, I should really start to talk about this book and not my love of of our former president.
I'm really glad that I listened to this instead of trying to read this book because it's over seven hundred pages long. Unlike Dreams of my Father, which like I said earlier that I read in college, this book is a little dry. He gives some us some of his upbringing and early in his marriage/becoming a father, but for the most part the book is about his run for president and his first term in office. I was kind of bummed it only covered his first term, especially since, like I said, it was over seven hundred pages, but he said early in the book this would be only volume one of his story. That being said, it was still awesome to hear President Obama read his own story; he narrated the audiobook. I may have put the speed on double because he talks so slowly, but I always forget how much I love hearing him talk.
If you would like to learn about being the leader of the free world, or just love Obama as much as I do, I would definitely recommend checking this book out.
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