| BECOMING Michelle Obama New York: Crown Publishing Group, November 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5247-6313-8 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-5247-6313-6 | 426pp. | HC/FCI | $32.50 | |
| Page x: | "I've heard about the swampy parts of the internet that question everything about me, right down to whether I'm a woman or a man." |
| Capitalization: S/B "Internet". |
| Page xii: | "I was at home in the redbrick house that my family recently moved into." |
| Missing space: S/B "red brick". |
| Page xii: | "I then carried my plate outside to the backyard." |
| Missing space: S/B "back yard". |
| Page 19: | "There was hope, hatred, and sometimes sex." |
| What does a kindergartner know of sex? |
| Page 77: | "One Saturday morning, we piled into her car—me and young Jonathan and another friend who also worked at the TWC—and rode along as Czerny drove full speed toward Manhattan, talking and smoking all the way." |
| Definition: is this "the posted speed limit" or "the car's top speed"? |
| Page 121: | "When he turned the key, the engine revved and the car spasmed violently before settling into a loud, sustained juddering that shook us in our seats. I looked at Barack in disbelief. 'You drive this thing?' I said, raising my voice over the noise." |
| Missing a chance, Michelle Obama forgot to say "You're braver than I thought." |
| Page 149: | "She was also the mother of a young daughter and soon to be divorced, which made it a deeply inconvenient time to take the sort of pay cut one does when leaving a swishy law firm and landing in city government." |
| Slang terminology: I'm sure Michelle Obama means "fancy" or "tony"; but to me "swishy" conveys the idea of effeminacy. |
| Page 174: | "Later that spring, we had our finances in order enough to buy a condo, moving out of 7436 South Euclid Avenue and into a pretty, railroad-style apartment in Hyde Park with hardwood floors and a tiled fireplace..." |
| I had to look this up. A railroad-style apartment has a central hallway onto which all the rooms open. It's not to be confused with a "railroad apartment," which is defined as having no hallway — meaning, I assume, that the rooms are connected in series like the cars of a railroad train. |
| Page 415: | "The power and truth of that moment stays with me to this day." |
| Number error: S/B "stay". |
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