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Posted: 05 September 2025 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I got a splash page done and the first page, but it was very much a back-burner project, due to everything else I was juggling at the time, so it kind of faded away more than being "canceled".
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I didn’t want to use “canceled” but couldn’t think of a better word.
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THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY by Garrett M. Graff

I’ve read several books on the history of the atomic bomb, so I expect to learn nothing new here (it was a gift), but the presentation, told entirely in quotes as an “oral history” is interesting.

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The House of Stairs by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. I have a local second-hand bookshop that I frequent and go there armed with a mental list of authors. If I find a book in the shop that matches anyone on my list, I tend to buy. For a while, I'd been looking for any of Rendell's books written as Vine, but could never find any -- turns out general fiction was the wrong section, as was thriller... Bizarrely there was another even more specific section in which she was hidden. Anyway, picked up The House of Stairs for a few bucks and am now maybe 50 pages in. It kind of worms its way obliquely to where it is going, which I quite like, not spoonfeeding any info, but instead unspooling it slowly and almost offhandedly, never making a big thing about its revelations.
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