Serena W. Sorrell's Reviews > Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My review reflects only on the composition of this biography and not at all upon RBG, who has my utmost respect and adoration. Alas, this book does no justice to the Justice.

I preface by saying I only made it through 58% of this. I promised myself I wasn't going to force myself to read things I wasn't enjoying after 50%, and I had to be honest with myself I was not enjoying this one.

The only positive I have really was that the subject is RBG.

But even she can only carry poor writing and composition so far.

The way in which her life is told was lackluster to say the least. There is little sense of time and readers will find themselves being pulled this way and that back and forth through time without any proper framing. One moment we're reading about her time at Harvard, the next page her husband's death already 10 years in the past. It's just very incoherent and jarring.

The time traveling aside, it just isn't interesting. I was expecting this to be in the voice of someone in my generation with commentary about why and how RBG appeals to us so much. Instead what I read was textbook chapter after courtroom briefing with tiny photographs of illegible handwriting that were blurry and did nothing to add to the experience.

Save yourself the time and money, read the Wikipedia or another biography of this fabulous woman.