New Book: Friday Night Lights

My new independent reading novel is Friday Night Lights By H.G. Bissinger.  The first chapter (Odessa) talks about the first day of practice on a Monday in mid August.  That's about all the football in that chapter the book goes on to talk about the history of the town how it was founded by men from Zanesville, Ohio in the 1880's.  The town was not good for farming because it is hard to get water to and it is not good for raising livestock.   But it was good at producing gas and oil nearly twenty percent of the nation's domestic Gas and oil.  It had one of the highest murder rates in the nation and was dubbed the 5th worst place to live in 1987 in Money Magazine.

It's hard to give an opinion on this book so far because the first chapter doesn't give much but background information.  One thing is even though it hasn't talked about football much yet I can already make a connection with this book because I play football.  That is the main reason why I chose this book to begin with because I love football.  I will continue reading and I think this book will be very good because I will be able to relate to this book very well.