In Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi gives us a protagonist who speaks often of history and how it's affected her — but what, exactly, is "history" to her? Readers will be left wondering.

It's tempting to say that we've used one word a countless number of times. But that would be wrong, because we can quantify it: – "Countless" showed up 255 times in the past year on NPR.org.