Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I vowed to finish this before the inauguration, and I did, but I definitely think my enjoyment was hampered by having started it at the end of fall semester...this is not necessarily a memoir that can be read in bits, and I think I didn't experience the full force of the narrative as a result of a haphazard reading schedule. Bits-and-pieces aside, obviously it was great. I can't pretend like there aren't things I think are indicative of someone's first book (first memoir, especially)...like at 400-ish pages, perhaps there was some streamlining to do? But it would be impossible for me to have read this without getting even more excited about a president I'm already ecstatic about. He is a complex, nuanced, and deep thinker, about to take office in a job that requires nothing less. Plus, he's a better orator than writer, I think (which is saying quite a lot), so I'm stoked for the next 4 years of speeches!