Week Five- Assignment 3

     After perusing the top 25 anticipated titles of 2013 on the Earlybird site, I found two which look very promising.  The first is Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman.  I have read a few of Gaiman's books, and I enjoy the atmosphere, the writing style, and the elements of myth, memory, and childhood which are evoked in many of his books.
     Another title which looks very interesting is the Historical fiction title Transatlantic by Colum McCann. This book seems to have several interesting appeal factors: it is a triptych of major transatlantic historical events from the 19th and 20th centuries; the motivations of people who travelled across the Atlantic, and the different experiences of making the crossing between 1840 and 1998, and how the development of transportation and technology helped to "shrink the world" and compress time for the average person.

-Monty Phair