I write from beautiful Cornwall on Election Day, but I won't write about either.  Nor will I write about the tinnitus that is turning the entire world into a low, vibrating hum.  Weird.

Instead, I write with the lovely and surprising news (I didn't even know they did this) that the good people at Amazon.com (the US version, that is) have made The Knife of Never Letting Go one of its Best Books of 2008.  Which, I must say, is pretty nifty.

It's one of the top ten teen books of the year as well as being on their top 100 books overall.  Excellent stuff, very pleasing, I must say, all the more so for being unexpected.  But then, you can always trust a Seattle company...