You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)