“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture of Rossini’s ‘The Thieving Magpie,’ which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
From ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami

Read these #FirstParas from other books by Haruki Murakami:-
DANCE DANCE DANCE
HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD
NORWEGIAN WOOD

Try one of these #FirstParas & discover a new author:-
‘A Change of Climate’ by Hilary Mantel
‘The Pelican Brief’ by John Grisham
‘Sophie’s World’ by Jostein Gaarder

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