#Non-fiction A Promised Land

• Author: Barak Obama
  
• Title: A Promised Land
  
• Published: 2020
• Genre: memoir  (7 parts, pg 768)
  
• Trivia: Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2020)
  
• List of Challenges 2021
• Monthly plan

Conclusion:

1. I was looking for a soothing voice to guide me out of my pandemic rut.
2. An audio book that would captivate my attention and push me out the
3. ….door every day just to continue the story!
4. A Promised Land: A Memoir  by Barack Obama was the book I needed.
5. I had been cooped up at home from November – February.
6. My body was withering away (muscle strength)
7. …and I needed to take action.
8. I embarked on a 6 week plan:  during Lent I
9. would bike every day for 1 hour outside.
10. …only with exceptions for a storm
11. …with wind and rain that would have me pedaling
12. 5 feet forward only to be blown back 3 feet!
13. No need to become a masochist…or catch pneumonia!

• Very enjoyable audio book for daily bike rides.
  Obama always speaks from the heart!

• Sometimes people like books because
• they think they’re supposed to
• but how could you NOT like this book!

• This book is a great historical “look behind the scenes”
• during Obama’s first years in office.

• Just helped Obama pass the Affordable Care Act
• while on my bike in glacial winter fog. Life is good! #AudioBook

• I heard how Obama surprised everyone and attended in
• Copenhagen on December 18 the final day of the meeting
• about the so-called Copenhagen Accord.

• He knocked some heads together and
• did some “gangsta-sh*t” and got the job done.
• Not often do you read about Obama’s
• “street creds” in the newspaper….but you do in this book!

Last Thoughts:

1. Reading this book was like drinking fortified wine.
2. It was heavy and sweet and bitter and swirled in my head long
3. after I came home from biking and took off the earphones.
4. I consumed the book daily…. in slow sips.
5. It was  an honest and eye opening perspective of what life
6. was like as President of the United States…first black American.
7. Thank you, Barack, the world needs this gorgeously written
8. ….raw honest truth.
9. #MustRead