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[tempestsarekind]

You know, I keep thinking I should try my hand at the 30 Days of Shakespeare meme, but a quick glance at the questions leads me to believe that way too many of my answers would involve Twelfth Night for there to be any suspense in the undertaking.

Anyway. Instead of doing Shakespeare memes, I have been reading children's and YA books:

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[lareinenoire]

You should do it anyway! It is truly ridiculous how many of my answers involve the First Tetralogy and nobody seems to care so far.

Also more people talking about how R&J is not failtastic cannot hurt. :)

[tempestsarekind]

I was thinking that if I did decide to do it, I'd wind up answering at least some of the questions as though they asked for a favorite character/play/etc. I have lots of favorites! :)

[lareinenoire]

Oh, me too! I dithered for a while about doing it until angevin2 pointed out that it's just a silly meme and more people talking about Shakespeare is always a good thing.

[tempestsarekind]

That is true! Maybe I'll give it a go once I get back from Family Stuff.

[bewarethespork]

I am not doing 30 Days of Shakespeare because mine will be All King Lear, All The Time (Plus a Bit of Hamlet), and nobody wants to read about me squeeing about the "now gods, stand up for bastards!" line. :P

[tempestsarekind]

Well, *I* would want to read it!

[bewarethespork]

Maybe once I'm done with 30 Days of Who? I seem to be stalled at about Day 12 on that one.

[tempestsarekind]

There *are* an awful lot of days in these memes! I hope I'll have the fortitude to do all thirty. :)

[skirmish_of_wit]

Sturtevant has been on my to-read list ever since you first mentioned her books to me AGES ago, and also I am currently obsessed with Frost Fairs (thank you, first chapter of Orlando!), and HOW DID STURTEVANT KNOW WHICH SETTINGS WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIEST?

[tempestsarekind]

...She has a direct link to the inside of your brain?

There is apparently a whole book about the Thames freezing throughout history? I know I saw it in the bookstore a few weeks ago. (Aha. Google says it is The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys:
http://books.google.com/books?id=xYOBOjP3CV0C&dq=inauthor:%22Helen+Humphreys%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s ) It looks to be sort of "creative nonfiction."

My only other Frost Fair association is walking through a tunnel in London--I think it's part of the Thames Path?--whose sides were decorated with a timeline and drawings about the river. I'm still not sure how we wound up in it, since almost every time I try to go to the Globe, I get lost and have to walk around in circles until I finally stumble upon it. But it was a very nice tunnel. :)