What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

What do you think your next listen will be? I liked the audio, I did not care for the story/essay (memoir?). It takes discipline on everyone's part and a healthy goal not necessarily a beauty goal just because one is a woman.

It's not cool to consider your pursuit for setting running goals as sacrosanct and assuming that 'the girls with their ponytails' are doing it for superficial reasons. I didn't enjoy the way Murakami talks about other people running while he singles out his experience. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

if you are not a runner you might, like my wife, get a little bored with 'all the runner insider stuff.' You can always find a writer who shares a hobby you like and read his/her book about it. If you are a runner this is a 'must read' along with 'Born to Run' by Christopher McDougall. Ray Porter was smooth in his reading of the translated material and seamlessly made me think that the author himself was reading. In other words, things mostly dedicated runners tend to understand and have enough interest to listen to or read.

The book is about a quest that got underway by trying to use running from Athens to Marathon as a magazine topic piece, leading to an enduring race against his younger self in besting his marathon times to a transcendent ultra marathon that led to less running. Being the space between his activities he doesn't write about running as a pathway to mind blowing revelations about writing - although running does help him stay motivated to write. Haruki Murakami writes earnestly about running as a void or space in his day. I am an avid long distance runner and share books I find on Audible with my wife who is not a runner.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami