Books - What are you reading?

Telegraph Avenue is good, despite some of the slightly taught race stuff, there's some really well-done characters and the music bits are fantastic if you're into funk/soul/beat stuff. Really like Chabon as a writer, The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay and both fantastic - and I really like the varied focus of his stories - he doesn't write the same US campus-focused coming-of-age stuff that his contemporaries Franzen and Eugenides seem to stick with... so, yeah, would recommend, although its definitely not a life-changing classic.

Just started reading rabbit, run. It's super depressing, and sort of too close to the bone.

I was flicking through my parents book shelf for something more 'up'. So i considered reading Chabon's 'telegraph avenue' which I imagine is sad for a slew of other reasons. anyway the opening line is;

'A white boy rode flat floot on a skateboard, towed along, hand to shoulder by a black boy pedaling a brakeless fixed gear bike.'

so, um, yeah.