RBG – Cannonball Read 17

Not a Meal to Remember

Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg

July 11, 2023 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

Reading this book was a bit like saving up to go to a really nice restaurant only to have the the food be overpriced and underwhelming. The book uses the relationship between Totenberg and Ginsburg as the hook to get you to buy/read the book. The book is really the autobiography of Nina Totenberg, but her approach is to weave her career and personal life together with Ginsburg’s. The technique doesn’t work. Totenberg is too deferential to Ginsburg to say anything other than Ruth was […]

Notorious

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

December 29, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

This is a book I should have read much sooner than I did. I only knew RBG as the a liberal member of the Supreme Court who wrote incredible dissents and for some reason shot towards fame late in her life. This book explains why that happened and makes me wonder why it didn’t happen sooner. RBG was and absolutely incredible person and I find myself far more like her than I ever would have imagined. This book serves as an abbreviated biography of why […]

Sometimes You Get To Be Famous For A Job Well Done

June 14, 2016 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

In finishing Hamilton: The Revolution, and being mired by yet another round of inequality for women in our country, I decided to stay the course with another non-fiction book, this one about a dynamo of gender equality. I was familiar with Justice Ginsburg, but Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave me so much more. Notorious RBG chronicles the personal history of RBG, her experiences in law school and pursuing a law career while being a mother (not an easy job […]

B I G POPPA (I mean Notorious RBG)

March 11, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I’ve already recommended this book to 2 people, and that was when I was only halfway done. I read this book at lunch at work, and everyone who asked what I was reading got a recommendation. I also cried a few times. RBG made me feel a little inadequate in my life choices, but that doesn’t make me like her less! RBG is an exceptional woman. After all, she’s the lady who answered “9” when she was asked how many women Supreme Court justices would […]

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