What are you reading and book reviews

[semi-pro waster]

I've read a few books over the holiday season but the most recent and probably memorable is Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger which offers an insight into a world that is almost completely alien to me. I'd heard of it before but picked it up by accident, it's about high school American Football in a small town in Texas which is essentially obsessed with it - it's both fascinating and worrying in roughly equal measure.

There's an epilogue from the author where he reflects on it after a decade and notes that some changes have been effected in the town but that in writing what he considers a fair exposition of the town he's been viewed as a traitor. I don't know precisely how much is true or how much artistic licence was taken but either way it's worth reading for an understanding of how it is/was. If you've ever watched Varsity Blues there are some parallels that can be drawn.