Preface: Don't read the views for this book.

Observations:

0. It's been almost exactly one year since the election. I was not prepared for how fresh the wounds still are while reliving the whole ordeal, nor for how emotional and drained I was by the end.

1. She's at least ten times the person I am. I'm not sure whether I have any hope or compassion left in me as far as our government and our democracy is concerned. But she seems to have it in droves despite possibly being the most openly vilified and wrongfully treated public figure in America.

2. This book is positively dripping with allusions and references to books. Novels, political works, poems, scripture. I don't know how she has time for it, but it's obvious she constantly seeks information and understanding and experiences outside her own, to understand history and policy, and to grow in compassion. This is obviously in stark contrast to Donald Trump, who may or may not be actually illiterate, but who definitely appears to not think that other people are real or have feelings, or that consciousness exists anywhere but inside his own head.

3. Roughly the first third of the book is about her personal life and how much she loves her family, and is really quite sweet. Any one-star review that says this book is nothing but lies and excuses should be dismissed outright as, if not a lie, then as unfair and incomplete.