What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Stop it, Amazon. Reading this book doesn't mean I'm a runner and need more recommendations for how to up my running game. Nor (sigh) am I a writer either, in need of recommendations for how to finish a book (though I kinda-sorta do need a book like this, if one exists).

I read this book because it was recommended as a good read by a book friend. It is. It's a book about how Murakami became a writer and how he became a runner and it's a little bit of a memoir, but it's about more than that. It tells about how Murakami gets into a meditative state when he runs and when he writes. It tells about how running and writing are alike and difficult and good. It doesn't proclaim to know the truths about either of these; it's not a self-help book but I did take away a lot of self-help that wasn't explicitly stated...good books are like that.