A Promised Land

I've been waiting for this from the library for longer than I can recall but sigh I couldn't get through more than 10 pages (and that includes skipping the introduction) because I kept editing it in my head. This is needlessly verbose and filled with irrelevant details which impede the narrative; Random House did Barack a serious disservice by not assigning an editor to whittle this down to a manageable size while maintaining the author's oh-so-pretty prose.

Michelle Obama's Becoming has recently been released in a young readers edition and I sincerely hope there is one planned for this beautiful monstrosity.