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Happy birthday to Ivo Andrić, Yugoslavian Nobel-Prizewinning writer.
 
 
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Q: What are the Forty Rules of Love?

Rand al'ThorIn Elif Şafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love, the titular rules are frequently referenced by Shams and others, and several times in the book a rule is quoted in full, but they are never listed all together. Are all forty included in the book, and what are they?

 
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Q: Primary School book about a blue virtual creature called something like "ZipBuzz" and a villain program who pretended to be the Help program

Jaffa6Hoping you can help me identify a book that I first read in primary/elementary school. I believe it had two children as main characters, and they were sucked into a computer program that they'd been using at school. One part of the program was blue and called something along the lines of "ZipBuzz"...

 
 
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Q: What translation/version of the Bible would Chaucer have read?

SarahA few lines in Troilus and Criseyde remind me of a Hebrew Bible verse. I want to compare the language of the book to the language of the verse, and I'm assuming he wasn't reading it in the original Hebrew. Thanks!

 
 
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Q: What form of figurative language would this classify as?

Jaireet ChahalI was reading a book called "Things Fall Apart" which is a book set in pre-colonial Nigeria. During a ceremony where members of the clan of Umofia are hearing out cases the leaders who are dressed up as gods always say: "Uzowulu's body, I salute you." I found it really interesting how in this cul...

 

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