Theo of Golden
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Published 2023 This is a wonderful book I'd have been unlikely to pick up had I just been wandering the shelves of the bookstore or local library. It was a book for a book club, and as it turns out, it was unavailable in the library at the time the group read it. All the copies had been borrowed, and were reserved by readers for quite a while to come. It's a popular book. And strangely enough, when I did get the actual physical copy in my hands, it was more than a good read - it was a well-produced volume manufactured with care (and well-edited!), with a simple and elegant cover design - another of my gripes with publishing in our age. It was a book that was a pleasure to hold, read, or have lying on the chair or table waiting for another session. That said, one of my first reactions to the story was a petty annoyance. The premise of the story is simple, even deceptively simple. A wealthy elderly man takes up temporary residence in a small town in ...
