Book Reviews and more soccer talk
We love to read, when we have time, so we we are launching a new book review section. These will be brief posts that will direct those who are interested to the Book Review page (review might be too formal a word, but we’ll see). I want to start out talking about a book I read last summer, that has been on my mind because of the One Lowell World Cup soccer tournament this summer. I know I seem strangely obsessed with soccer, but as I mentioned in a previous post, visiting Europe during the 2006 World Cup got me interested in soccer as a cultural phenomenom. When I returned, I picked up a book of essays called The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup. While I still don’t know or understand much about the game of soccer, the book gave a lot of information about how the game fits into different cultures and why it is so important to some people. It was also fun to read.
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