Book Review: Robin Williams Is My Uncle: And Other Stories We Posess

Robin Williams Is My Uncle: And Other Stories We Possess by Cathy Borders
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Disclosure: I formatted the interior of this book. I've been paid. I make nothing extra based on book sales.

I rarely read the books I format. Of course, I have to read a little bit of each book to figure out what goes where. That's my job. With this book I would read a line to figure out where to put it and a few minutes later realized I had read a couple pages. I knew I had to read the whole thing.

The back cover and Amazon description says the book is a "bricolage study." Words like "autotheory" and "epigenetics" are there too. Academic gobbledygook. I could have looked them up, but I didn't care to know. I did know that the book is a good read. I'm a pedestrian book consumer: mysteries, legal dramas, non-fiction history... I should not have found this book compelling. But, I did. I started it and didn't stop until I was done. It kept my attention, which if you read enough you know isn't always the case. The weird thing: I can't nail down why it kept my attention. It's certainly not a traditional story structure that I'm used to reading.

I am glad I read the book. I encourage you, dear review reader, to give it a go. Maybe you'll find it as hard to stop reading it as I did. If you do, leave a review and explain to me!

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