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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott · 1995 · 239 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
Wonderful, delightful, warm and intimate read. Even though I’m not a fan of the writing style often used in this book, I can honestly appreciate its simplicity, clarity and robustness. It’s a no-nonsense, straight writing guide with a person’s face.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.