I'm re-reading after being inspired by Maureen Dowd's delicious editorial in the NY Times entitled "Attention Men: Books are Sexy".
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/op...There she says she can escape (Trump) by re-reading "Our Mutual Friend" and falling back in love with the indolent barrister Eugene Wrayburn. That was all I needed to decide to re-open "Our Mutual Friend".