So MUCH to write about in one day!  Like the fact that The Knife of Never Letting Go - in addition to being on the Carnegie Medal shortlist - has just won the James Tiptree Prize, an American award for books dealing with gender.  Which is a fantastic and lovely surprise.

And in other big news, I finished the London Marathon yesterday covered in blood, and still somehow managed a personal best.  I took a very bad tumble over an in-the-way traffic cone at 16.7 miles and had to run last ten miles with bloody knee (pictured!) and an increasingly swollen ankle.

I'm a little cross as, if I hadn't fallen, I was on pace for really great time, but despite being slowed (and having to walk for a while when things got too bad), I still finished in 4 hours, 26 minutes.  Not bad at all.  AND I can still walk today.  In fact, it's the sunburn that's the bigger problem...