I had a design-a-nursery project in Child Development, which I did not do (in favor of an English project). And a diagnose-a-fictional-character project in Psychology. Aaaaaand I haven't done the reading in English.
Sherlock Holmes, which makes it terribly easy, since I've got sources for one perspective I'm supposed to use, and I know a good bit about him backwards and forwards, making it easy to do any other that I choose. What'll take effort is writing the paper. My essays lately seem to be uniformly terrible, and I might be sunk without a copy of the book.
So are you going to type the paper? Because if you are, what I do is type out my basic idea of the essay or whatever with no real creativity. Then I cheat and right click to get synonyms and suggestions. ^^' It's cheating, but it's a useful method to make it sound pretty.
And as for the book, do you have any clue where you last left it?