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A review by anteus7
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
5.0
I have immensely enjoyed what little Murakami I have read and often wonder why I don't read him more often. I should. I will.
My daughter gave this to me for Christmas after hearing a classmate speak passionately about the impact this book had on him (I wasn't there, so I would have to take some liberties in order to go into detail). It struck her that I would appreciate something like this. And I have.
I started reading it that day and passed out on the couch at my in-laws' house. Not a great start, perhaps, but strangely appropriate to the kind of book this is. I read it in bits and pieces until the last giant gulp yesterday when I finished almost half of it.
This is a book about doing something important to oneself in order to support doing something even more important. I think we forget, or, more likely, don't really think about how the pieces of our lives fit together. One thing impacts the others; this choice allows for or restricts this or that thing.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a simple, straightforward book, and it makes me want to run again.
My daughter gave this to me for Christmas after hearing a classmate speak passionately about the impact this book had on him (I wasn't there, so I would have to take some liberties in order to go into detail). It struck her that I would appreciate something like this. And I have.
I started reading it that day and passed out on the couch at my in-laws' house. Not a great start, perhaps, but strangely appropriate to the kind of book this is. I read it in bits and pieces until the last giant gulp yesterday when I finished almost half of it.
This is a book about doing something important to oneself in order to support doing something even more important. I think we forget, or, more likely, don't really think about how the pieces of our lives fit together. One thing impacts the others; this choice allows for or restricts this or that thing.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a simple, straightforward book, and it makes me want to run again.