Roger Frary. Laughter in Church (1965)

     Roger Frary. Laughter in Church (1965) Frary tells good anecdotes, amusing, but not knee slappers, all more or less based on his own experience. He occasionally labours to generate his humour, employing too much arch irony, but on the whole he avoids the deadly trap of dressing up the amusing in ornate vocabulary, a failing committed by many writers who want to demonstrate that they can laugh at serious subjects. Fay gave me this book, too; she found it on the Library discard shelf. ** (2004)