I had run in the past three or four times a week but always in a gym.
I mean, what is better than reading about running in the outside when you are not allowed to do it?Īnyway, I must say I am not a great fan of running. But, with the confinement we have been suffering, I decided it was time to read it. Then it stayed abandoned in my very crowded shelves. I bought this book lots of years ago, in my mother tongue, Spanish. But (and this was a surprise for me) he can also be pure poetry when he talks about running. Murakami is pure poetry even when his books belong to the fantasy genre. REVIEW OF “WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING”
A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and–even more important–on his writing. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.
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