2010: Ruth's Year in Books

[rsadelle]

Best of the Year
Here are the five best books I read last year, with first lines (where I could find them online). Usually I just put these in alphabetical order by last name; this year, the best book is first and the other four are in alphabetical order.

• Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta.My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
  
• The

Comments

[allegram]

Since I happen to have it sitting here (Thank you!) The first line of The Third Claw of God is "Later, much later, after I died, I tried to remember why."

[rsadelle]

Excellent! I will edit that in to the post. (I almost called my mom to ask if she still had them around - I suggested them to her and she liked them too. I hope you enjoy them!)

[idahophoenix]

Glad to have stumbled into reading this in one of my insomnia-manic midnight perusals of LJ. I had never heard of Naomi Kritzer-will definitely check her out. Do you have a suggestion of which book to read first. Is it a series?

[rsadelle]

She is excellent! Fires of the Faithful and Turning the Storm are a duology. She's also written a separate trilogy. These two made it into my favorite books that I keep on my shelf while the trilogy was just really good.