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First Lines

Just got a stack of new books that look particularly good. Thought I'd tease you with their first lines. Would you check out these books just from reading their first sentence? "On the day she was to die, Liyana walked out of her family's tent to see the dawn."                                    Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst "The rain poured down on London so hard it seemed that it was dancing spray, every raindrop contending with its fellows for supremacy in the air and waiting to splash down."                                    Dodger by Terry Pratchett "The two girls on the beach in their flowing gowns could have been mistake for water nymphs, if water nymphs wore gold-edged togas."                                   Beneath the Glitter by Elle & Blair Fowler "I will never forget the day my family got cut off from the Internet."                                 Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow  "It looked set