Thorndike Biography: My Beloved World (Hardcover)

from JenniferRobb

A networking acquaintance gave me this book in a box of books she couldn't use for the project for which she'd collected them. j I knew Sonia Sotomayor's name but couldn't place it until I read the back cover blurb. I am glad I read this book. Her story is inspiring. She grew up in a lower incom...

from rivkat

Memoir, ending just when Sotomayor becomes a judge and deliberately not covering Supreme Court confirmation or tenure. She tells a very personal story of growing up in a Puerto Rican immigrant neighborhood with diabetes that had to be rigidly treated and an alcoholic father who died young. Consta...

from hemlokgang

Very readable, very interesting, and very human. I enjoyed reading this book from start to finish. Sonia Sotomayor writes about her life from early childhood to her first appointment as a judge. She clearly details the influences which brought her to adulthood and the Supreme Court, namely, famil...

from HadriantheBlind

It is a rare event for any political memoir to exhibit anything like true honesty, feeling, and candor. This book was a pleasure to read. I'd even pass it along to my mother.Justice Sotomayor's legal opinions and courtroom style are a tough, 'just-the-facts' approach, and it is easy enough to see...

from tangledthread

Sonia Sotomayor's memoir gives us a candid peek into the early life of the first Hispanic, female Supreme Court Justice of the U.S. The first portion of the book deals with her diagnosis with Type I diabetes at age 7, the dysfunctional marriage of her parents and her father's struggle with and de...