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A review by stuartmarkpiper
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami
4.0
I loved the runalogue.
I listened on Audible while running myself and if spurred me on.
In particular I loved how he admitted the challenge he feels to sometimes get up in the morning and run, how daunting it can feel, even though he loves the activity so much he has written a book about it. I relate.
Running has for me been as life-lifting as discovering Murakami's literary canon. Here, the two roads met, almost perfectly!
Perhaps I would have liked him to add a tad more profundity - ie how running makes him feel about life itself - his views on the universe, life lessons beyond running lessons. But this is perhaps an unreasonable expectation - and maybe those things are there to be read in between the lines. His fiction doesnt hand you answers on a plate, it poses the questions - perhaps I should reflect more simply on the subtext, or even, but enjoy the afterglow from this read/listen for what it was - a beautiful meditation on running. Which IS life.
I listened on Audible while running myself and if spurred me on.
In particular I loved how he admitted the challenge he feels to sometimes get up in the morning and run, how daunting it can feel, even though he loves the activity so much he has written a book about it. I relate.
Running has for me been as life-lifting as discovering Murakami's literary canon. Here, the two roads met, almost perfectly!
Perhaps I would have liked him to add a tad more profundity - ie how running makes him feel about life itself - his views on the universe, life lessons beyond running lessons. But this is perhaps an unreasonable expectation - and maybe those things are there to be read in between the lines. His fiction doesnt hand you answers on a plate, it poses the questions - perhaps I should reflect more simply on the subtext, or even, but enjoy the afterglow from this read/listen for what it was - a beautiful meditation on running. Which IS life.