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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...Every Shakespeare, quite enjoying this challenge so far!
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Comedies
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure�
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Tragedies
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
Lost plays
Love's Labour's Won
Cardenio
Poems
Shakespeare's sonnets
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
Apocrypha - optional
Arden of Faversham
The Birth of Merlin
Locrine
The London Prodigal
The Puritan
The Second Maiden's Tragedy
Sir John Oldcastle
Thomas Lord Cromwell
A Yorkshire Tragedy
Edward III
Sir Thomas More
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...Animal alphabet.
Animals completed: 2/26
Actual books completed:59/192
I've chosen:
I'm going to go through my animals one at a time starting with my tasmanian devil (: - on second thoguht it makes more sense to do them all at once, it may be quicker (:
Alpaca (:
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E - Eric - Terry Pratchett
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V - The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
E - The Eight - Katherine Neville
R - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
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C - Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
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Dingo (:
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L - The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Expury
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P - Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
H - Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
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N - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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F - A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
L - The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
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M - Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
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N - The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
G - The Green Mile - Stephen King
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G - A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
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S - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
S - Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
H - Hobson's Choice - Alfred Bester
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H - Fairy Tail Volume One - Hiro Mashima
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N - Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
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G - Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
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L - The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K Hamilton
L - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
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F - Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
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S - A Storm of Swords, Blood and Gold - George R.R. Martin
H - The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climber Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
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O - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
M - Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
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G - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
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M - Midnight Sun - Stephanie Meyer
M - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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G - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
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W - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
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C - A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
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P - The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
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C - Circus of the Damned - Laurell K Hamilton
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QUEEN BEE
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D - Dracula - Bram Stocker
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S - A Storm of Swords, Steel and Snow - George R.R. Martin
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L - The Lunatic Cafe - Laurell K Hamilton
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T - The Time Machine - H G Wells
A - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
S - Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
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E - Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
V - Veronika decides to die - Paulo Coelho
I - Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice
L - Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
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UNICORN
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V - The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
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B - Bloody Bones - Laurell K Hamilton
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WOODPECKER
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S - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...Gryffindor
� Gryffindor's emblematic animal is the lion: Read a book about a lion (or a shape shifter who turns into a lion).
� Gryffindor's emblematic colors are scarlet and gold: Read a book that has a predominately scarlet or gold cover.
� "Nearly Headless Nick" is the house ghost of Gryffindor: Read a book featuring ghosts or read a book in which someone was decapitated or beheaded. Yikes!
� Members of Gryffindor are described as courageous, chivalrous, and brave to the point of recklessness (sometimes) : Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book.
Slytherin
� Slytherin's emblematic animal is the snake: Read a book which features a snake on the cover or in the story.
� Slytherin's emblematic colors are green and silver: Read a book that has a predominately green or silver cover.
� The Bloody Baron is the house ghost of Slytherin: Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place. You can also read a book where the protagonist loves someone who does not love them back.
� Members of Ravenclaw are described as cunning and shrewd: Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book. Or read a book in which the protagonist irked you.
Hufflepuff
� Helga Hufflepuff, the founder of Hufflepuff, was a witch during medieval times: Read a book that is set in a medieval time period (between 5th to the 15th century)
� Hufflepuff's emblematic colors are yellow and black: Read a book that has a predominately yellow or black cover.
� Fat Friar, the house ghost of Hufflepuff, dedicated his life to religion: Read a book about someone who is extremely religious.
� Members of Hufflepuff are described as hard working, patient, and loyal: Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book.
Ravenclaw
� Ravenclaw's emblematic animal is the eagle: Read a book which features an eagle on the cover or in the story. You can also read a book about someone who can shape shift into a bird of any type.
� Ravenclaw's emblematic colors are blue and bronze: Read a book that has a predominately blue or bronze cover.
� Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw, was Scottish: Read a book that takes place in Scotland.
� Members of Ravenclaw are described as intelligent, witty, and wise: Read a book in which the protagonist is scholarly, bookish, all knowing, etc...
Animal alphabet started March 15th 2012 - 2 year duration
Normal Alphabet started March 15th 2012 - 1 year duration