A review by stevensabby
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
4.0
A truly inspiring book. Sotomayor shares her history in a supremely accessible way - candor, generosity of spirit, honesty. What a beautiful life. She works her way around questions of a political nature by simply ending her memoir when she accepts her first judgeship.
I love a memoir that allows you to walk away feeling like you've come to know someone - like you sat down and had coffee with them. Sotomayor's book does exactly that.
Perhaps one of the biggest things it accomplishes is to remind the reader - regardless of political affiliation - that the people who sit in the highest seats of power in our nation are people with rich and moving stories, people who loved their grandmothers and grieved the loss of their cousin to AIDS.
I love a memoir that allows you to walk away feeling like you've come to know someone - like you sat down and had coffee with them. Sotomayor's book does exactly that.
Perhaps one of the biggest things it accomplishes is to remind the reader - regardless of political affiliation - that the people who sit in the highest seats of power in our nation are people with rich and moving stories, people who loved their grandmothers and grieved the loss of their cousin to AIDS.