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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Really liked that book when I read it a few years ago, and I'm usually not even remotely interested in comic books or the like. But Chabon is a good writer.

Have been reading a lot lately, actually. Somehow it is just connected to the christmas/holiday period for me - the time where staying indoors makes sense, and you actually have the time to do it. Besides a couple of Danish books, I've managed to make it through Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road', Daniel Kehlmann's 'Measuring the World' and Haruki Murakami's 'A Wild Sheep Chase' during the past few weeks. The first one I bought while travelling for christmas, the other two I got as presents. All three very different, but all of them infinitely recommendable.

Also, for the last 12 months or so, I've been reading Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy on and off, and Lay of the Land is the unfinished book on my desk these days. Really impressed by these books, but somehow it just works for me to not read them too fast.

Hmm, it sounds like I pretty much love everything I read, but that certainly would be far from true. However, I've become pretty good at only picking up things, I'm likely to enjoy. Also, there is a pretty good chance I wont read a single book before summer - sometimes that happens.