1. My post about Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is finally up at Tor.com. The first comment is quite possibly the most awesome comment I have ever received on any of these Tor.com posts and has completely made my day.

2. Also, I finished reading Voyagers of the Titanic (2012), by Richard Davenport-Hines.

( Which means it is time for a rant. )

Voyagers of the Titanic, by Richard Davenport-Hines, published in 2012, contains this gem of a statement* about second class passengers on the Titanic:

Women sat there opening their hearts to novels with salutary moral purposes**; men reached to the shelves for formulaic detective stories or books that were heavy with solid, reliable facts.
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