Books - What are you reading?

My seven year old son wants a "chapter book" about cycling. He sees me reading a lot and wants something of his own. Trouble is most of the stuff I have will be pretty boring for him, or be a bit too sweary.
Anyone come across anything kid friendly?

Have him listen to "Jazz" by Queen while he studies the album cover.
(LP, that is)

This may be too advanced for him, but it is a good read for when he gets a little older.
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A beautiful little picture book, with short descriptions of the pictured bicycles from really old to 90s oddities.
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^ thanks - have ordered a copy of The Yellow Jersey.

Just got Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, recent winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke prize. I like the cover, but not read it yet ...

Andrew Vachss's A Bomb Built in Hell. They finally printed it.

I finished Great Expectations a couple of weeks ago, which was absolutely brilliant. Dickens' characters are fantastic, it's strange that the ones that seem to stick in public consciousness are overwraught stereotypes like Fagin or Scrooge, when actually characters like Pip and Joe are complex, human and wonderfully thought out. Somehow I'd managed to avoid knowing anything at all about the plot, bar knowing from South Park it featured someone called Pip, and from Carol Ann Duffy's poem that there was a batty old woman in a wedding dress. Turns out there was a bit more to it than that.

I'm currently reading something very different, which coincidentally has quotations from G.E. at the beginning of each chapter. It's a more modern book by David Nicholls called One Day, with a pretty interesting concept, namely following two characters over a twenty year period, by zooming in on their life on the same day every year. I thought it would be a bit of a guilty pleasure TV kind of book but it's actually very well-written with a great mix of emotional family-relationship bits and a kind of hazy nostalgia for the early nineties (at the minute) that I only know from listening to Blur as a kid, and which didn't really mean much to me then. Not halfway in yet, but based on what I've read so far, I'd definitely recommend it.

Also I decided to search this thread to see if anyone else had mentioned it, and found this great review by Luci.

I got lumbered with One Day on world book day. Don't want to sound ungrateful, but it got right on my tits so I put it down, pronto. Life's too short for some books...

I admit, it doesn't start off too promisingly, but I thought I would humour my girlfriend (who generally has excellent taste) and it does get better. I suppose you'll have to take my word for that...

Just started reading my friends book. Just been published.
24 and already a published author writing about russian politics. fml

its really good

I'm back reading Daemon - Daniel Suarez again.
got Freedom(tm) lined up after, do the whole story in one then.
I love a bit of fiction.
might pick up the new Sergei Lukyanenko after.

I read the Millenium trilogy.

Crazy story.

Just got Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, recent winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke prize. I like the cover, but not read it yet ...

It's a good quick read although the shifts in viewpoint are not my favourite style for exposition.

Working my way through Louis Stephenson's short stories. Finished Jekyll & Hyde, really hoping we do the show next year, the blood special effects would be ridiculous.

New Finnish Grammar - brilliant
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/new-finnish-grammar-by-diego-marani-trans-judith-landry-2298474.html

Reading Irvine Welsh's Filth
Compelling and evil
looking forward to the movie

This may be too advanced for him, but it is a good read for when he gets a little older.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Yellow-Jersey-Ralph-Hurne/dp/1558214526

Yes, I think I'll wait a few more years before letting him loose on mother and daughter ménage a trois.
Odd book - something like The Rider crossed with a Mills & Boon'ed Lovejoy. The description of the evening race in the first half was the highlight.

My seven year old son wants a "chapter book" about cycling. He sees me reading a lot and wants something of his own. Trouble is most of the stuff I have will be pretty boring for him, or be a bit too sweary.
Anyone come across anything kid friendly?

Alastair Humphreys wrote a kids version of his book about cycling round the world, not sure what age group it's for though. The Boy Who Biked the World

Just started reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace on insistence of the BF.

Wish me luck...

I've got part way through that book a couple of times. It is currently sat on a shelf taunting me.

Yeah, Ive heard that alot...

Started reading Infinite Jest a couple of weeks back. Now 300 pages in, plus another hundred odd of footnotes. You have to give it to about page 200 for all the various strands to start to even think about coming together, but it's totally worth it. Persevere.

I got a Kindle.... Whilst traditionally opposed to it, whilst I'm still living an nomadic life it makes a whole lotta sense. Plus it's got me reading more.

I'm currently reading War and Peace. I've put in a LOT of hours and I'm still only 30% through it..... still enjoyable and not a chore (so far).

Got round to reading King Rat, only been reading it for a day and a half and Kindle tells me I'm 75% through, very addictive stuff.

George Saunders - Tenth of Decemeber

I'm enjoying discovering Murakami - Polished off Norwegian Wood over the weekend, and am deep into A Wild Sheep Chase at the moment.

I love the lyrical melancholy (which, I appreciate, may be a factor of the translation) and matter of factness.

As I read everything on Kindle, however, I am a little limited in what is available.