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223 Questions

What is Hobbes?

Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decide to kill off this character?

Did J. K. Rowling base platform 9 3/4 on the Gump?

Why were these animals used to represent the different countries in Maus?

What is the significance of Alec Bings's name in The Phantom Tollbooth?

How do I straighten out a paperback book's cover that is bent?

Why does this copy of the Iliad mention "the will of God"?

What does Wednesday mean by "the flowers in your hair are optional"?

Why does the murderer call Macduff's son "egg"?

Explanation of the line 'But you don't really care for music, do you' in "Hallelujah"

Was Susan ever able to return to Narnia?

How did the authors of The 39 Clues decide on a plot outline?

How did Madeline Usher survive without food or water?

Identify a book about a boy who has hypnotic powers

Is there any textual evidence that this death in Deathly Hallows symbolized the end of childhood?

Do all old stars get their own private island and a magical buffet table?

Why is the king 'baffled' in "Hallelujah"?

Do we ever find out what Ike did to have his law license revoked?

What does it mean for a person to be "up" themselves?

Why do some books have colors on the edges of the pages?

Is Casanunda a reference in "Witches Abroad"?

Why does Aphrodite speak like this while disguised as the old woman?

What does "But... They went home" mean in Maya Angelou's "They Went Home"?

What is the planet that "leads men straight on every road" in Dante's "Inferno"?

Is the giant who carved the "Under Me" line Time?

Do the female Dwarves in Tolkien's Legendarium also have beards?

What happened at the end of The Giver?

Do I need to read the Redwall books in any specific order?

How developed is the Gnommish language?

Was Holmes written as a drug user in A Study In Scarlet?