My Beloved World

My Beloved World

2013 • 353 pages

Ratings9

Average rating3.9

15

Very enjoyable.
Great foundation, early on she directly states that it's a memoir, how that differs from a biography, and that she's not going to discuss her time on the Supreme Court. The furthest point in time that she talks about is her acceptance of her current position. That really helped adjust my expectations and put me in the right mindset for her story.

I liked the perspective she loaned me as a technical outsider to her culture/background, and enjoyed her description of her childhood and college experiences. I also liked her commentary on womanly style mostly on the topic of fashion sense, who had a sense of style and how she late in developing one; I wasn't expecting it, but also realized the RBG referenced this in the biopic I saw earlier this month, and the connection as well as the actual content made me smile.

I appreciated her writing style in that it did not rely on exaggeration or hyperbole, because it made her more reliable. I felt that I could trust her. Even when she was talking about her mother's withdrawal from the family, I felt that she in no way exaggerated what happened, that she was telling it how it was.

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