I picked up 'Working Class Zero' from the Canadian shelf in my local public library.  According to the book jacket marketing, this book is a Canadian Nick Hornby or Roddy Doyle.

So far it is not living up to the Nick Hornby comparison and has just been too full of cliches and obvious office life observations such as "...this is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates."

Yes, indeed.  Isn't that a little cliche though?  And if this is the new working class then what about the old working class?  The people who have no education and take jobs in factories, as maids in hotels or as janitors.  This book is intended to be a humorous take on working in a financial institution.  I have known a lot of people who have taken a job in a bank right out of university and been shocked by the realities of office life.  But I don't know if I want to read about it.

I just finished 'What the Body Remembers' by Shauna Singh Baldwin and its hard to switch from a novel which makes profound observations about ethnicity, religion, education, class and gender within the context of the Indian Independence movement and eventual partition into India and Pakistan.

Its always hard to abandon a book once you've started.  But there are so many good books out there, I've yet to read....