What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I suddenly had a craving for Chinese books. In the last 8 years apart from reading HK news online and my Chinese bible I rarely had a chance to read Chinese. Nowadays with many things you can actually read online. Novels are too short-lived. You read it and then you put it on the shelf. It's not worth carrying it 6,000 miles when your baggage limit is only 20kg. Religious books make me look more intellectual, but the better ones are written in English.

I went to quite a bookstore today with the aim of coming out with a book. Number 9 on the chart was a book by a Japanese author and runner 村上春樹 Haruki Murakami (translated into Chinese). For some reason I have been quite exposed to Japanese culture recently, from going to Japan to watching more Japanese movies. What caught my eyes was the title: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running《關於跑步，我說的其實是……》And I realised I was subconsciously attracted to anything to do with running, even books.