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

July 13, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 2: Asia & Oceania I’ve read a few of Haruki Murakami’s novels (in translation; I don’t read Japanese); I enjoyed them but they’re definitely something you need to be in the right mood for. His non-fiction What I Talk About When I Talk About Running sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would write some of those stories, at least style-wise. Murakami is a long-time distance runner as the title suggests, and basically he’s turned bits of his running journal into a nine […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr15bingo, fitness, haruki murakami, Japanese literature, running, What I talk about when I talk about Running

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr15bingo, fitness, haruki murakami, Japanese literature, running, What I talk about when I talk about Running ·
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I’m on Kauai, in Hawaii, today, Friday, August 5, 2005.

What I talk about when I talk about Running by Haruki Murakami

September 5, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A short collection of memoir essays by Haruki Murakami about running. What’s most interesting about this collection is how banal he approaches the subject. To be fair, a lot of Murakami novel dwell in the banal by design, so this is not a surprise really, but it really works here. One of the reasons that works is because he actually is a serious runner, but still an amateur. So this is not a memoir by a professional or competitive runner, but of a writer who […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: haruki murakami, What I talk about when I talk about Running

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:476 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: haruki murakami, What I talk about when I talk about Running ·
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