March Read of the Month: “The Books that Mattered,” by Frye Gaillard

Reviewed by Allen Mendenhall “My first encounters with books were disappointing.”  That’s a curious opening line for a memoir about reading inspirational books, but an apt one, too, because Frye Gaillard anticipates right away how he will treat reading: not as an activity undertaken in isolation or as an exercise liberating readers from the quotidian […]