Phi Alpha Delta Book Club discussion

Anxiously awaiting this book to be available at my library. I think I have requested it in every format except stone tablet.

December is here! Looking forward to our new book too!

Yayyyyy! Digital and audiobook versions both available!! How far behind am I?

I finished the first third or so of the book this weekend, and am enjoying it thus far (and look forward to the biography it teases is forthcoming towards the end of RBG's tenure!)

A few thoughts:
- Young RBG has excellent taste in literature - Secret Garden, Little Women and Nancy Drew.

- I found the following quotation by her husband really interesting - "Ruth is somebody who is simply not afraid of dead air time. If you ask her a question that requires a thought-through answer, she will stop, think it through, and then answer." I think this is something that is often overlooked in our profession (at least by young attorneys like myself) - when sitting in on court, I see attorneys afraid of leaving a pause as they sort out their thoughts to answer the judges inquiry. But if they had taken some time to get their thoughts together, their response would be much better.

- The Chapter remembering Scalia (And the Ginsberg-Scalia Opera) are great. I especially enjoyed the quotation from Scalia before RBG was nominated, as to who he'd want on the Court.

I had the same thought re RGB's literary interests as a child. I literally wrote "Of COURSE Jo is her favorite."

Also the marriage advice from her mother in law about being a little deaf is spot on.