A review by mcbibliotecaria
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

3.0

Here's the thing. I'm such a Sotomayor fangirl. Being Puerto Rican and her rulings thus far at the Supreme Court has been left and so on point. However, this book? Snoozefest. She did say it was going to stop at when she became a judge, which makes sense. But I can't help that reading this it was censored by her own want of self-preservation to be so down the middle to where I just don't understand anything about her. She was raised by a very close knit family in NY and talked a lot about the hardships, without real conviction though. Like, understanding how it influenced the rest of her life is not something she thinks about. She is always moving forward, which is great, but in a book this is finally a time to look back and reflect.
I got no passion from this book. The idea that she wanted to be a judge since she was a little girl was so pushed by the wayside it was only brought up at the end to just make it clear, her dream came true. Several times she says "That is not what this book is for" and I had a hard time figuring out what it was instead besides an extremely nilla wafer about how she is always right down the middle all the time to better reflect on her ascendancy, perhaps to shut up naysayers saying she is too far left. It was, just so boring. And her as far as she has been on the national stage, has been anything but. I don't get it. Bummer.