Purple People

Tonight is one of those nights I wish I could write about but can never justify using words. I have never felt so loved and encouraged in so many ways. I feel engaged with my work and capable. Just capable. I am listening to Midwinter Graces on my headphones. I love it. I can't explain how much I love it. I feel up. These words don't know what I mean.

This year.

1. Lolly Willowes- Sylvia Townsend Warner

2. A Handful of Dust- Evelyn Waugh

3. A Scots Quair- Lewis Grassic Gibbon (A trilogy)

4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera

5. Coming Up For Air- George Orwell

6. The Hours- Michael Cunningham

7. Life is Elsewhere- Milan Kundera

8. The Collector- John Fowles

9. Lanark- Alasdair Gray

10. Wilderness Tips- Margaret Atwood

11. Boy Meets Girl- Ali Smith

12. Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood

13. A Million Little Pieces- James Frey

14. Speak of the Mearns- Lewis Grassic Gibbon

15. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov

16. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters- Julian Barnes

17. Switch Bitch- Roald Dahl

18. Possession- A. S. Byatt

19. The Buddha of Suburbia- Hanif Kureishi

20. The Road Home- Rose Tremain

21. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor- Gertrude Stein

I just want him to sing me to sleep.