I share a birthday season (Thanksgiving - New Year's) with a few friends from high school. This year we decided to re-read Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot. All I remembered about the book was romance, romance. But this time around..this mature reader was delighted with the historical elements as well as the Jewish element - very interesting.
In surfing the web with Mr. Deronda, I came across a web site called
www.pointandcircumference.com, where I ordered a lit mag called...The Deronda Review. How cool was that? They have poems that actually rhyme and make sense, stuff about the environment, relevant themes.
I highly recommend people start re-reading stuff from high school; it's much more that we originally thought.