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The Book That Wouldn't Burn

Mark Lawrence · 2023

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

Russ Allbery loved it
The best book I read last year was Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn, which much to my surprise did not make a single award list for its publication year of 2023. It was a tour de force of world-building that surprised me multiple times.

on eyrie.org · 1 Jan 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.