An Intergenerational Book Club

The Crescendo Community invites participants of all ages to two book clubs this summer during second service in the Loft.

How To Read A Book by Monica Wood | July 19 and 26

A Heartfelt Novel of Redemption that begins with a book club inside a women’s prison. When one of the characters is released, unlikely friendships develop in small town bookstore that change the course of everyone’s life.

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi | August 16 and 23

Currently number one on Amazon and thirty weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers List, some avid readers confess, “This is the best book I have ever read.”

One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person’s story. And so portrait by portrait, person by person, secrets are revealed, regrets are shared, and ordinary lives are profoundly altered.