garleighc 's review for:

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

4.0

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This is not about Gilda Radner. This is about Gilda Radner's entire medical history and her ovarian cancer, up until approximately the year before she died. I was not aware of this until I actually started reading the book... the funny thing is, she weaves in chapters and passages about her earlier life, almost as if, while she was battling cancer, she was constantly reminded of things that had happened earlier, things that tied all her experiences together. It was a very unique way of writing a memoir, in my opinion. I also appreciate that Gilda, in this book, didn't paint herself as a survivor or an angelic invalid; instead, she was crabby, she was cranky, she was a giant mess. She was human. It was nice to see her as a human reflected in her own words, instead of a more glamorized version of her, like you get with so many eulogies.