Tuesday Book Review

 

Five-star review of Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg

This fascinating memoir by the NPR commentator on the friends she’s made over the years, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, stressed the importance of long friendships through the good and bad events on our lives and how those friendships can form over good meals and good conversation. I learned a lot about the court as well as the people covered in the book. I particularly appreciated the examples of how hard it was for women to advance, to earn as much as men for the same job, during the 20^th century. People need to be reminded of that to fully understand what an accomplishment it was for Ruth to become a supreme court justice. I read this for a book club and was glad I did.