What are you reading now?

[Padraig]

My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[french frank]

My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm not likely to find time to read it, Padraig, but do pass on your impressions.

[Padraig]

I'm not likely to find time to read it, Padraig, but do pass on your impressions.

f f, I'm a latecomer to this remarkable woman. I knew who she was and her position on the Supreme Court of the USA, and I shared the outrage over the appointment of her successor. The book is a collection of her essays, speeches and judicial writings covering her career and experiences on the bench. I found it in a newly opened bookshop and bought it on sight.

So far I'm getting a picture of a really lovely woman who has set standards of achievement for herself and women, and who fully used her increasing influence to further those standards even to the extent of getting Congress to change the law. She writes with clarity and with a quiet (sly?)sense of humour at times, and shows great devotion to her family, friends, colleagues and legal antecedents. She is also a musician - sings, plays piano and loves Opera a passion she shares with another Justice who has become a friend and co-star in an Opera written for them.

I've just got through the 'easy' part of the book, and I can see that there are lots of cases and dissents coming up which I'm looking forward to learning about. Her style is encouraging, and I'm confident that I'll get to know a bit about American Law and more about Ruth Ginsburg.

I'll keep you posted?

[french frank]

fI'll keep you posted?

Do, please, though you make me sense how much the world is missing her

[muzzer]

Didn’t she attend Nabokov’s lectures at Cornell? May be completely wrong.

[Padraig]

Didn’t she attend Nabokov’s lectures at Cornell? May be completely wrong.

Absolutely right. RBG cites Nabokov as a huge influence on the way she read and wrote.

[Padraig]

As I am already reading Ruth Ginsburg's book, and it is the subject of discussion at present, it seems appropriate to post this here - especially as I can't find a thread for the Presidential Election. This is concerning Ruth Ginsburg's dissent on the judgement of the Supreme Court on the Bush v Gore Florida dispute in 2000. It's some read!

https://lithub.com/when-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dissented-in-bush-v-gore/

[vinteuil]

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The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Research Edition, Correspondence: Volume 2 "The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson"

... on a bit of a Johnson and Boswell splurge at the moment.

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[gradus]

1939, a book of social and economic history of the east anglian counties in that fateful year. The material poverty and insecurity of many perhaps most ordinary lives then, nevertheless fail to remove from me a strong sense that for all our progress, life is no better now.

[teamsaint]

I’m just dipping into a “ Blood and Iron”, a new history of the German Empire 1871-1918.
It is by an impressive debut author Katja Hoyer, for whom we have high hopes, and reaction in the trade has been very positive.
Great endorsements from Michael Portillo, Andrew Roberts and Roger Moorhouse, and it reads very well . Published mid January, perfect for those Xmas vouchers, and a snip at £14.99 RRP in hardback .

[richardfinegold]

f f, I'm a latecomer to this remarkable woman. I knew who she was and her position on the Supreme Court of the USA, and I shared the outrage over the appointment of her successor. The book is a collection of her essays, speeches and judicial writings covering her career and experiences on the bench. I found it in a newly opened bookshop and bought it on sight.

So far I'm getting a picture of a really lovely woman who has set standards of achievement for herself and women, and who fully used her increasing influence to further those standards even to the extent of getting Congress to change the law. She writes with clarity and with a quiet (sly?)sense of humour at times, and shows great devotion to her family, friends, colleagues and legal antecedents. She is also a musician - sings, plays piano and loves Opera a passion she shares with another Justice who has become a friend and co-star in an Opera written for them.

I've just got through the 'easy' part of the book, and I can see that there are lots of cases and dissents coming up which I'm looking forward to learning about. Her style is encouraging, and I'm confident that I'll get to know a bit about American Law and more about Ruth Ginsburg.

I'll keep you posted?

RBG son is the CEO of Cedille Records, a not for profit Classical Music Label based here in Chicago. I have attended Concerts featuring their artists and chatted with him as her sells CDs at intermission

[richardfinegold]

Didn’t she attend Nabokov’s lectures at Cornell? May be completely wrong.

Cornell is in Ithaca, upstate New York, several hours from NYC. If she attended his lectures then that was quite a commitment

[Pulcinella]

Dickens: Our mutual friend

It's ages since I last read this, and I'm delighted to be reacquainted with Mr Boffin's Bower, the Podsnappery, and a host of other wonderful creations and characters.

[muzzer]

Cornell is in Ithaca, upstate New York, several hours from NYC. If she attended his lectures then that was quite a commitment

Yes I know where Cornell is.

https://lithub.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-on-how-vladimir-nabokov-influenced-her-writing/

[richardfinegold]

Yes I know where Cornell is.

https://lithub.com/ruth-bader-ginsbu...d-her-writing/

I didn’t realize that she had done Undergraduate at Cornell. I had thought she went somewhere in NYC