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154 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Why does the murderer call Macduff's son “egg”?

Was Susan ever able to return to Narnia?

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

Why is the king 'baffled' in “Hallelujah”?

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?

Identify a book about a boy who has hypnotic powers

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

How did Madeline Usher survive without food or water?

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

What are the 'holy' and 'broken' Hallelujahs?

How developed is the Gnommish language?

What happened at the end of The Giver?

Do I need to read the Hardy Boys books in order?

Is the giant who carved the “Under Me” line Time?

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

Are the Goosebumps books connected in any way?

What does this passage about the atmosphere blowing from Cyprus and the Galilee mean in “Jude the Obscure”?

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

What makes a poem a Grook?

How does the line 'your faith was strong but you needed proof' match the rest of the verse in “Hallelujah”?

Was Thomas Hardy expressing his own religious intolerance or commenting on the general anti-Semitic sentiment of the time?