Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2009 by Vintage Arrow.
As a (sometime) runner, I found much of what he writes early in the book helpful and interesting. Some of the little asides were heartwarming. However considering the entire collection together, it feels like the kind of vanity project that was worth a few essays for the New Yorker or Harpers but not as collected.
Lovely memoir with an inspiring take on exercise, specifically, a running life. This book was insightful and fun but it also talks about the downsides of his running life. His failures and pains. And what happens in his mind when he runs:
“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.”
I like to run, but I'm not what Murakami would consider a "serious runner" who runs 6 miles a day, 6 days a week. Maybe someday I'll get there. The goal is to keep on moving.
Lovely memoir with an inspiring take on exercise, specifically, a running life. This book was insightful and fun but it also talks about the downsides of his running life. His failures and pains. And what happens in his mind when he runs:
“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.”
