Daily Bread for 11.21.13

Good morning.

We’ll have a one-third chance of rain today with a high of forty-five.

On this day in 1783, a balloon flight over Paris:

French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, the marquis d’ Arlandes, make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes. Their cloth balloon was crafted by French papermaking brothers Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventors of the world’s first successful hot-air balloons.

Here’s Puzzability‘s entry for today:

This Week’s Game — November 18-22

First Editions

This week, we’re summarizing books in just one word. Each day’s answer is a book title whose initial letters spell a three- or four-letter word. The day’s clue includes information about the book and a clue to the word.

Example:

Joseph Heller novel about a professor who has a chance to be the first Jewish Secretary of State, if he can just get that bandanna out of his mouth

Answer:

Good as Gold (GAG)

What to Submit:

Submit the book title (as “Good as Gold” in the example) for your answer.

Thursday, November 21

Yann Martel novel in which the end of a lifesaving raft is cut off