What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir Haruki Murakami, Alfred Knopf, 2007 Translated Copy, 2008 119 pages Forget the title. I can say that this book is a book on meditation. Okay, just almost. Murakami transported me to the world of marathon without fondness or favor. He just wanted to run for the sake of running. He loves to undergo the physical challenge in the process of preparing to a marathon. While physically challenging himself, he also make me understand that his character is being challenged too. Discipline, perseverance, focus, stamina, self-examination, and many others are all put to test and use while one is running, just as in writing. Of course, as I expected, while he is writing about his running, he inevitably talked about his writing novels. And mostly on the virtue of what he does, running and writing. Though I was not able to read his novels, the genre of which I believe I could not ever read, I still loved t...