David Copperfield is here and he's brought along some friends! Some of his friends are thanks to your recommendations (so thank you--you know who you are!). I am always fishing for good things to read (or to buy to read later), but I can't help myself--there is so much knowledge of good books out there that I would be crazy not to take advantage of the situation. Hopefully along the way I give you a good idea or two as well in terms of something good to read. I am nearly always in the mood for some Victorian literature, but I never try any poetry. It was suggested I give Alfred, Lord Tennyson a try. I actually remember studying him in high school and liking him. Idylls of the King looks quite good--a poetic evocation of the Arthurian legends. I wonder if this is something I can read slowly--dip into now and then? Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann is set in the 20s, about a young woman who "has always been a little in love with each of the four cousins who come to stay next door and, on her return from Cambridge, becomes madly in love with one of them". She has been compared to Elizabeth Taylor (who I AM going to read this year) and has also come recommended. I'll be starting David Copperfield by Charles Dickens as soon as I finish Colette's Cheri and the Last of Cheri (hopefully this weekend). I think I will be in good company as Susan and M-MV are currently reading it, and Isabella and Sandra recently finished it! Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was another recommendation. As I have read Emily and Charlotte, it is about time to give Anne a read as well. Wilkie Collins is one of my favorite authors, so I am adding The Law and the Lady to my shelves--possibly "the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine". And lastly I finally have Peter Ho Davies' The Welsh Girl set in (yes) Wales about a young local girl and a German POW. I have heard good things about this author and this book, and I can't wait to crack it open and start reading!