sarahbethbrown 's review for:

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

5.0

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Gilda is the best. She is so, so funny, but it never feels like she's trying to tell you a joke (which is how I felt reading, say, Bossypants.) She just has the best, most natural, funniest way of telling stories, even really horrible ones about cancer and sickness. It was hard reading this knowing she was going to die of the cancer that she, at that point, had survived, and that definitely made it a sadder book than it probably was when it came out. But it's still delightfully funny, and I also think it gave me really good insight into what it's like to have cancer. Wonderful book.