Fictionary 4/17
Time for another round of, "Name the book that opens with..."
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
Those are the opening lines to: Haruku Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which is awesome and you should totally buy at Alibris.