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... at least that's what the weather forecast is currently predicting. Personally, I wish we could just get rid of winter altogether, but I suppose I'm not the one in power here. So, in order to prepare for a yucky weekend of sleet, hail and the occasional snowflake, I'm piling up on tea and good reading material. My "To Read Shelf" currently holds James Kelman's Greyhound for Breakfast, A.L. Kennedy's What Becomes and Alasdair Gray's Poor Things. The first two are collections of short stories and I intend to pick out a few here for a seminar on Scottish literature I'll be teaching soon. The last one is described as being about "true love and scientific daring which whirls the reader from the private
operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic
casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an
interrupted climax in a Scottish church" (Amazon). Sounds promising, if you ask me.
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