My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

I grabbed this when I found it on the Barnes & Noble buy 2 get 1 free table. I find Justice Sotomayor fascinating and she is a fellow New Yorker so I was excited to read her story in her own words. And I was not disappointed it.

While at times it felt like she started one place and then was way off track it soon became clear that it was her style of story telling. It is quite conversational in fact. During a story she would go off on a side trip but it was to give background, kind of how you might talk to someone and need to pause to explain some sort of relevant history or introduce people in her life and how they entered her life. After the first couple of stories I started to get a feel for her voice and it really felt that I was getting to know her.

From her mother's hard beginning in Puerto Rico to her swearing in as a Supreme Court Justice by way of growing up in the projects in Bronx NY, her time at Princeton and Yale, a stint in the NYC DA's office and then private practice, my admiration of and respect for Sonia Sotomayor was deepened by the reading of My Beloved World.

(finished June 9, 2014)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling

My youngest is taking me on a journey back to Hogwarts. He is 8 and after having listened to the books on cd a bunch of times and watching all of the movies over and over he asked for (and got) his own set of the books so he can read them. Then he asked me to join him and we are taking turns reading to each other. I'm not sure who is enjoying it more, me or him. Today as we finished this one, our time was up and we had to start getting ready for school/work and we had maybe 10-12 pages left and he pleaded with me to finish, he wanted to get to the last page and not leave it for tomorrow.

Highlights from this piece of the story of the boy wizard who defeats the darkest dark wizard included time travel, Draco getting a little bit of a slap down, flying on a Hippogriff and a book that bites.


Tomorrow we start The Goblet of Fire, and we are so excited!!

(finished June 5, 2014)