My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Published 2013 · 432 pages · 90,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Biography, Law, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction
How hard is My Beloved World to read?
My Beloved World scores 15 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Everyday vocabulary. Written for a wide audience.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 20 out of 100
- Concrete personal narrative throughout.
- Information density: 35 out of 100
- Rich in personal detail without being dense.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Chronological coming-of-age memoir.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- The Bronx as both limitation and foundation.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Earnest, heartfelt tone throughout.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Her trajectory is known; the book focuses on formation.
- Structural complexity: 15 out of 100
- Simple chronological structure ending before her judicial career.
How My Beloved World is regarded
My Beloved World holds a literary regard score of 40 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.