Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in.
Starting with the cheater on this list:
We Ride The Storm by Devin Madson
Because both the original self-published version and the newly released version from Orbit have excellent opening lines.
Self-pub:
It’s harder to sever a head than people think.
Trad-pub:
They tried to kill me four times before I could walk.
In fact starting with this one was not the best choice, how you follow this up?
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
When I was seven I found door.
I really like how the begining and a the title match here, she found one door when she was seven, “how did she make her way up to ten thousand?” it seems to ask.
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
Are you okay?
What I like about this one is how simply it sums up the main character, always thinking about those around him.
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
When Red wins, she stands alone.
So you lose the time war, but first you win it?
The Cat Who Traveled a Thousand Miles by Kij Johnson
At a time now past, a cat was born.
It’s kind of saying, this is going to be a small, personal story.
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Not a day goes by that the post does not bring me at least one letter from a young person (or sometimes one not so you) wishes to follow in my footsteps and become a dragon naturalist.
I like 1 – we know that the protagonist makes it to old age, I dig that, 2- it has dragons in the first sentence, 3 – it has studying dragons in the first sentence
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence and it was a silence of three parts.
The Name of the Wind prologue with the silence of three parts is one my favorite bits of text that I can actually remember.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
I really like how concisely it sets the scene and then gets you hooked, sort of like, ok geography, but wait, wizards!
Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
As a general rule, signs are too subjective a topic for polite company.
I like that this one starts playfully, playing something silly as if it were sensible.
Great list! One of these days I really need to give the Earthsea series a try. I love The Memoirs of Lady Trent, too, and I love how the series begins so you know this is a woman who’s going to be successful.
I always find it harder to make time to read older books when everyone on the internet is screaming about new releases that sound amazing, I try to schedule them in but I’m not doing a great job.
You have ones I haven’t seen so far today. I really like them. They were all new to me.
Yess I love talking about books people haven’t heard about it. Hope some of them peak your interest!
“Are you okay?” is an awesome way to start a story.
My TTT .
The entire book is amazing, I really recommend it, it’s not quite like anything else.
I really ought to read The Name of the Wind sometime.
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It’s really nice! A bit slow going but I like the purplish prose