what I'm reading now

I woke at 4 this morning and had a choice to make:  with my corporate work suspended until Monday at 8 AM, how would I spend this sudden gust of unscheduled time?



Reading?



Writing?



I mean, let's face it:  I left my own Florentine novel in suspense at page 80—I left it, literally, mid-sentence, in a scene I never saw coming.  I left it several days ago, feels like weeks ago, feels like another era, and I don't know when I will get to it again.  I don't know if I'll remember what it was I imagined I was doing.



But.  There are four books I've been dying to read—four books that, if left unread, basically disqualify me to opine about the year in Children's/YA.  And I gotta opine.



Picture me reading this weekend, then, in the following order:



Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein)

Son (Lois Lowry)

Ask the Passengers (A.S. King)

Goblin Secrets (William Alexander)



My thoughts about Code Name Verity will be posted here tomorrow.