Posted on 02/25/2018 11:54:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the title of her hotly anticipated first memoir, Becoming, and it’s Nov. 13 release date—when it will be simultaneously published in 24 languages worldwide—in a statement to PEOPLE on Sunday. “Writing Becoming has been a deeply personal experience,” Obama says. “It has allowed me, for the very first time, the space to honestly reflect on the unexpected trajectory of my life … how a little girl from the South Side of Chicago found her voice and developed the strength to use it to empower others.”
The yet-unreleased book jacket portrait of the author, whose first book, the 2012 American Grown focused on her White House kitchen garden and nutrition initiatives as first lady, was taken by celebrity portrait photographer Miller Mobley, who gave People an exclusive preview from one of his shoots with Obama, 54.
In statement from Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, the publisher of Obama’s upcoming book suggests that it will stretch the confines of a traditional former first-lady memoir the same way Obama’s official portrait for the Smithsonian did. “Becoming is an unusually intimate reckoning from a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same,” the publisher said.
Obama, whose husband, former president Barack Obama is writing his presidential memoir (for an expected 2019 release), will promote Becoming on a U.S. and international book tour, the publisher said, adding that 1 million books will be donated in the Obamas’ name to the educational nonprofit program called First Book.
In her limited number of public appearances since leaving the White House, Obama has given some hints about the book she’s been writing, saying primarily that she hopes it will be inspirational.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Even the conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs will be lies!
Made it through four Atlanta summers with no AC. Hot and humid.... and yes I did walk back and forth to school lots of times.
They had a contest, and these two tied for first (or last) place.
Up hill both ways across giant ice fields. Even in the summer. ;-)
Eewww
Political propaganda disseminated to children and teachers through a nonprofit.
What’s wrong with this picture?
I think the portrait is from a paint by numbers kit I saw months ago in a craft store.
“I’m laughing reading a piece from her bio....She grew up in an apartment which had no air conditioning.”
No wonder she wuzn’t proud of the ‘country’... jeeze, MOST of us born away from the concrete jungles didn’t have AC.
Down Low n’ Me
They’ve come up with something better than the duct tape all the beauty contestants use to keep everything where they want it?
Dang! Trust a woman to tell on me...Big mistake...
I asked her nicely to be circumspect...Now I have to out back and shoot the donkey...Lesson learned: Never loan your animals to anyone.
“Unusually Intimate”
Did Michael’s d*ck fall out when he was riding a bike?
They used to necklace in my Haiti days
In port au prince
Leave em on the sidewalk all crispy and rotting in that humid 95 degree heat
Little school kids in uniform skipping by the bodies with satchels
Macabre is an understatement
Lately? I’ve seen that behavior for 50 years. Most of the black race has a giant chip on their shoulders that they just cannot get rid of. I think the trillion dollars in payments to them over the past 50 years has made it worse — they resent “being kept” by the government.
LOL. That would be a best seller!
A “a flopping pants-sausage” — LOL. See #64 for another view of the proof.
Is she eating that dog or blowing it?
Jesus, even Superman’s leotards didn’t have that much bulge! Where a jock strap already!
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