I've been trying to read more recently. I have just read Unmastered by Katherine Angel, which I liked, a poignant part of which she describes a time in her life when she was pretty torn up about having had an abortion - and am well into Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson now, which I'm enjoying too, I've never read it before! I also came across my Don Juan book by Lord Byron, completely dog-eared up to just before the last canto, so I thought I might as well finish reading it all now (perhaps after Treasure Island). We're talking about at least 3 years I last read Don Juan! A great poem, definitely a pioneer of rhyme, which on the one hand seems quite rigid, yet on the other gives it excellent structure. I'm sure I read somewhere that Shelley said he thought it was one of the best poems he'd ever read, or at least the first cantos, since he died before Byron wrote the further cantos to it.
Threads like these are great because it brings together everybody's different tastes, and so is a great place for inspiration for what to read next.
