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My Beloved World

Sonia Sotomayor

Start date: March 1, 2022

Finish date: March 27, 2022

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Oct 14, 2018 Aura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: biography, political, memoir, all-time-favorites, new-york

Who is Sonia Sotomayor? She is a girl from the NY projects. She is a girl who grew up in a loving home led by a tough mother and an alcoholic father. How did this NYrican make it to the highest court in the land? Well, Sonia tells a story of a girl with a unique intellect, a mom who modeled hard work and good ethics and lastly many people along the way who supported a young talent. I love Justice Sotomayor's story. It is the story of America, of people who came from where ever and worked hard. S ...more

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Jan 26, 2013 Meg - A Bookish Affair rated it it was amazing

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction

4.5 stars. Before reading this book or rather listening to this book as it were, I really did not know much about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's background at all. This book is Justice Sotomayor's memoir of her childhood and her entrance into the world of law. The book doesn't cover up to the present day and really does not even talk about how she became a Supreme Court Justice but this memoir is so rich and Sotomayor's early life is so fascinating that you don't even miss that she does ...more

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Dec 22, 2016 Kathleen rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir

This is a great book and I plan to teach with it next semester. Sotomayor's like is inspiring and not too different from that of many of my students. The challenges she faced in college are going to be great discussion starters. A study in tenacity! ...more

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