light but not stupid, which is what I usually like about Nick Hornby. This one is, at the surface, about Sophie's career from local beauty queen to tv star, but it's far more than that: working relationships and work families, and how our professions both define and restrict us in a variety of ways. 
 Sometime this month Pop Culture Happy Hour is devoting an episode to discussion of this book, so I wanted to get on reading it quickly.