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(Oprah) -- Kick back there's a reason they call them beach reads.

"Seating Arrangements" by Maggie Shipstead

Winn Van Meter has everything an affluent person could hope for: a devoted wife of almost 30 years, two daughters, a privileged life in Connecticut, and a summer home on Waskeke a fictional island resembling Nantucket.

Despite his comforts, Winn suffers from a typical midlife dissatisfaction: "He had almost everything he could think to want, and yet still ambivalence bleached his world to an anemic pallor."

Maggie Shipstead's "Seating Arrangements" is a whip-smart and engaging debut novel, set on Waskeke over the course of three days. Winn's oldest daughter, Daphne, is pregnant and getting married. His youngest daughter is lovelorn and mourning a recent abortion.

Strong personalities clash as Winn struggles with his long-burning attraction to one of Daphne's gorgeous and wildly flirtatious bridesmaids, Agatha, as his marriage grows stale. "He could not be sure that he had ever been in love with Biddy, or with anyone for that matter, but Biddy was the woman he had felt the most for."

Shipstead observes the absurdity of the upper class in Winn's trivial anxieties; he's incensed that he wasn't invited to join an elite golf club, and he carries on a rivalry with another island couple. This is the best kind of smart beach read: a book that expertly examines social life with heart and wit.

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"Heading Out to Wonderful" by Robert Goolrick

"Heading Out to Wonderful" about a drifter who takes up with the wife of the richest man in small-town Virginia is by "A Reliable Wife" author Robert Goolrick, which means it's deliciously dark and dangerous. Oprah.com: 7 books that will take you on an inner journey

1. Is this a book review?
2. What is the title?
3. Written by Whom?
4. What is the main characters name?
5. Was he wealthy?
6. Married?
7. For how long?
8. How many children did he have?
9. How many days did the story cover?
10. Was this the authors first book?
11. Who was the father attracted to?
12. Who was she?
13. Who recently had an abortion?
14. What state was she in?
15. what was her mothers name?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yes
2. "Seating Arrangements"
3. Maggie Shipstead
4. Winn Van Meter
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. 30 years
8. two
9. three
10. yes
11. Agatha
12. Daphne's bridesmaid
13. His youngest daughter
14. lovelorn and mourning
15. Biddy

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

This article lists aircraft accidents and incidents which resulted in at least 50 fatalities in a single occurrence involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision with either a commercial or military passenger or cargo flight.

There have been 539 such accidents, including terrorist or other attacks. Of these, 198 have involved at least 100 fatalities, 33 have had at least 200 fatalities, 8 have had at least 300 fatalities, and 4 accidents have had at least 500 fatalities. Between 1923 (the first year an aircraft accident or incident exceeded 50 fatalities) and the present, these accidents have involved 571 aircraft across all seven continents and the three largest oceans, and have accounted for 56,669 fatalities.

Five years after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers on 17 December 1903, Thomas Selfridge became the first fatality of powered flight while flying as a passenger with Orville Wright during a demonstration of the Wright Model A at Fort Myer, Virginia, on 17 September 1908. Eugene Lefebvre was the first pilot killed in a power airplane in 1909, while the first fatal mid-air collision occurred on 19 June 1912, near Douai, France, killing the pilot of each aircraft. Since the deaths of these early aviation pioneers, the scale of fatal aircraft accidents has increased in proportion to the size and capacity of airplanes.

1. When did the Wright brothers have their first flight?
2. Who had the first flight fatality?
3. How long after the first recorded flight was that?
4. Was he the pilot?
5. Who was?
6. What type of plane were they in?
7. Where?
8. When was the first pilot killed?
9. What was his name?
10. Where did the accident take place?
11. How did he die?
12. I realize, thank you. I wanted another unknown answer.
13. When was the first deadly collision, mid-air?
14. Where?
15. Was both pilots killed?
16. How many collisions have had at least 50 fatalities since then?
17. When was the first time it happened?
18. How many total fatalities have the collisions been accountable for?
19. How many collisions have had more than 300 fatalities?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 1903
2. Thomas Selfridge
3. Five years
4. No
5. Orville Wright
6. Wright Model A
7. Fort Myer, Virginia
8. 1909
9. Eugene Lefebvre
10. unknown
11. killed in a power airplane
12. .
13. 1912
14. Douai, France
15. yes
16. 539
17. 1923
18. 56,669
19. Eight

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(CNN) -- Do not go backstage at Cirque Du Soleil. It will only hurt your self-esteem.

Anthony Gatto says he's been in training since he was 3 years old and performing since he was 8.

In the performers' tent for the touring show "Kooza," there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulders from a giant see-saw and the woman doing contortions on children's-sized blocks.

You can only take so much of this before your ego needs normal.

Normal might be that man in the corner, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers throwing balls in the air. How hard can that be?

Your self-worth will be quickly dashed again when the man picks up a soccer ball, bounces it on his head and jumps rope at the same time. Moments later, he's juggling six or seven orange rings (they move so fast, it looks like a blur) and then does a pirouette -- while all the rings are in the air -- and then catches them on his arm. Watch the juggler in action "

You could say Anthony Gatto went into the family business. But his stepfather wasn't a farmer or a doctor. He was a juggler.

"By the time I was 8, I was entered into a juggling competition, and incidentally, that was the same competition that Patrick Dempsey, the actor, was in," Gatto said. "He used to be a juggler. We competed against each other. I took first, he took second. Now he's a big actor and here I am, juggling."

1. Why don't you want to go backstage?
2. How long has Gatto been training?
3. And performing?
4. What is the name of the event?
5. How many objects was the guy juggling?
6. Was his father a farmer?
7. A physician?
8. How old was he when he competed for the first time?
9. Who took first?
10. Second?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. It will only hurt self-esteem.
2. Since 3
3. since he was 8.
4. Kooza
5. 6 or 7
6. no
7. no
8. at 8
9. Anthony
10. Patrick Dempsey