{"id":4244,"date":"2026-11-09T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:39:58","slug":"dinners-with-ruth-a-memoir-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> by Nina Totenberg, 2022, Audiobook narrated by the author, Simon &amp; Schuster Audio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoyed listening to this audiobook about Nina&#8217;s relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It portrays what a really close friendship should look like and I learned a lot about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nina, the Supreme Court and some of the other justices, Washington Politics, as well as Nina&#8217;s close friendships with her cohorts at NPR (Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is very unstructured, and Nina jumps from topic to topic in no particular order.  This doesn&#8217;t detract very much from the overall story, but I was surprised that I didn&#8217;t like Nina&#8217;s narration very much, especially her voice.  After hearing her on NPR&#8217;s <em>All Things Considered<\/em>, I was expecting that I would like it a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is, however, an inspiring story and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nina Totenberg, 2022, Audiobook narrated by the author, Simon &amp; Schuster Audio I enjoyed listening to this audiobook about Nina&#8217;s relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It portrays what a really close friendship should look like and I learned a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4244\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,18,16,38],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}