" I originally intended a very different book .... imagining myself to have something original to say about the current state of race relations .... in spite of the periodic impulse to abandon the entire project, what has found its way onto these pages is a record of a personal, interior journey - a boy's search for his father, and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American .... "


... autobiography, memoir, family history

Interesting. Especially the first and the last part. In the middle part Barack's urgent need to change things frustrated both him and the reader :) I had to (well, wanted to) copy a few lines from the book to my reading diary, to consider them later again. What puzzled and annoyed me at first was that for Barack (ha ha, now I call him by his first name as if we were close...) everything was about colour/race. I couldn't understand that. But eventually I started to see the way he felt. I still don't understand that completely but at least I can see some point in that.

Some notes from the book...
"HIS history.../ SOMEONE ELSE's history..." (school)

"In every society, young men are going to have violent tendencies. Either those tendencies are directed and disciplined in creative pursuits or those tendencies destroy the young men, or the society, or both."

(about jails) "All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard (.....) Instead I see us do what we've always done - pretending that these children are somehow not our own."

Helmet: 26 (elämäkerta tai muistelu)
Popsugar: 16 (a political memoir) OR 32 (the first book you see in a bookstore)

MEGAan Kalajoelle mukaan.

Ei löytänyt uutta lukijaa Megassa joten palautui minulle. Tarjoan tänään minimegamiitissä kahvila Hipussa.

Palautui takaisin minulle.

At the "BC-stall"

Picked this book up at a BookCrossing stand at Porvoo CacheCon 2017 last Saturday. I have read about BookCrossing before, but have not had any chance to use the platform until now. Now when the opportunity presented itself I grabbed this book, which seems like an interesting read. Thanks!