Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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This was definitely a different sort of memoir. I listened to this as an audio book, performed by Ray Porter and translated by Phillip Gabriel. This was the first thing that I have read from Haruki Murakami and I enjoyed it, even if his thoughts and reflections became tedious and more vague than anything truly concise.

This book is not your typical self reflective memoir. It’s not attempting to tell a story, sell you a theme, or give a strong message. Murakami tells you this within the first...