...even if she wasn't smiling...

The task has been this: trying to read everything in sight before school begins and I run out of the time to do so. Tonight was Michael Hoeye's "Time Stops for No Mouse" and Meg Rosoff's "How I Live Now". The first was forgettable, the second completely incredible. I'm stunned that this was Rosoff's first novel, it is the strongest teen fiction that I have read this year, bar none, and is so astonishing. I can't go to sleep now, the story is still threading through my mind.