Dream In Color by Linda & Loretta Sanchez
September 26th, 2008Title: Dream in Color
Authors: Linda & Loretta Sanchez
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
It’s politics time! I know how excited everyone gets about the idea of more politics discussion! This is where I get to break out of my norm and rant and rave on the benefits of the flat tax system and how evil (or not evil) Ralph Nader is! Ironically, this is also the time where I lose all of my readers. No, I’m just kidding. This book review isn’t about any of that. Dream In Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress by Linda and Loretta Sanchez is not a policy book by any means. Draem in Color is really more of a memoir than anything else. The book is fine…nothing really special about it and nothing particularly eggregious either.
The book tells the story of Linda and Loretta Sanchez, who became the first sisters to be elected as representatives in the US Congress. It’s a neat story as their parents moved in America from Mexico and raised their kids to believe that they can do anything they want. Linda became a lawyer and Loretta worked in finance before they assaulted Capitol Hill.
There are some funny stories about life on Capitol Hill and very little policy discussion. The sisters obviously state their opinions on different things, but they don’t drive anything at the reader. Like I said before, it’s a fine book. I never felt anything groundbreaking while reading it. Just got bored a couple of times. The only real annoying thing about the book was that they alternated speaking throughout the chapters. Yes, I realize that’s pretty much the only way to do a book written by two authors talking about the same things. It was just a little annoying.
All in all…if you are interested in the history of sisters that are also members of Congress…this is the book for you.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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September 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
ironically, i was just wondering when on earth there would be a book written by sisters who are both in congress, and by golly, here it is!!