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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
17:09
Ongoing topic challenges: George Büchner and Isabelle Eberhardt, incidentally two authors who died before the age of 28.
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Librarian
Librarian
17:27
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Q: Announcing the July–August 2022 topic challenge: Ukrainian Literature

TsundokuIn accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the July–August 2022 topic challenge. Based on the number of votes (+5), the next topic challenge of the y...

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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Ugh, I was out for most of May and didn't get a chance to contribute to the Omenuko topic challenge :-/
Will probably post some Omenuko questions later anyway.
Bookworm
Bookworm
17:53
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Q: Which six languages does Andrey Kurkov speak?

EJoshuaS - Stand with UkraineA recent New York Times Magazine profile of the Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov (The Pen and the Sword, May 26, 2022) mentioned that he speaks six languages (including Russian, which is his native language, and presumably Ukrainian); however, it doesn't specify which ones. Which languages does he ...

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Q: Why does Andrey Kurkov write in Russian?

EJoshuaS - Stand with UkraineA recent article in the New York Times Magazine about the Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov (The Pen and the Sword, May 26, 2022) discusses why the author writes in Russian (which some Ukrainians object to). It mentions, When the novel [Gray Bees] was published in Ukraine in 2018, it was criticized...

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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
20:37
> An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German go to a club. The guy on stage asks if they can see him. They all answer, “Yes”, “Oui”, “Sí”, “Ja.”
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
22:43
I have protected The meaning of "The rest is silence" in "Hamlet" The last five answers to it were not too impressive.

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