Review: Fidgeta "Welcome Pleasantries, And Often Delicious"

Book review: Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies[The author] used to do St. Fidgeta as a party routine, I am told. . . . In print it is at least amusing-a well-salted mixture of mock scholarship, parodies of ecclesiastical language and manner, puns, jokes and occasional strokes of inspired foolishness. . . . Besides St. Fidgeta, . . . the volume offers a dozen or so additional turns in this rare genre of religious burlesque. . . . The illustrations by Marilyn Fitschen are appropriately wild. All in all, welcome pleasantries, and often delicious. But if some books are best read by a friend who will remember the best parts and pass them along. Preferably at a party.

Richard Horchler