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File Size: 2954 KB

Print Length: 241 pages

Publisher: Crown (May 23, 2017)

Publication Date: May 23, 2017

Sold by: Random House LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B01L5Q1YZW

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I was looking forward to this book because I love to read books about running, especially memoirs! And this author is articulate and educated, and has a definite feminist point of view. She included a lot of running history I hadn't heard before, as well as some I did know, and I really enjoyed reading about the different historical perceptions of women as runners. She is from Australia, so I enjoyed hearing a less US-centric point of view!

Enjoyable fast reading book!

Beautiful, beautiful memoir and history of women's running.

I'm conflicted about this book. It's a well written book, it just isn't the book that I thought I was getting or that I particularly wanted to read. I anticipated a book about running through grief as the author trained for a marathon, and we got that. But there was also a lot-maybe too much?-on the history of running, women's running,running in antiquity, possible mythical running achievements, many of which could have been their own books. As a result, I felt that when she finally got to running Gold Coast and then NYC, it was short changed in favor Atalanta, way too much Pheidippides., the myth of the marathon and some details on the history of the marathon. In some ways, this isn't surprising, she's a voracious reader and did her PhD in literature. I just wished for a more focused look at one of these topics vs. trying to do them all.That said, I see a lot of myself in her. An atypical runner who decided to run and progressed while struggling as many of us do. The book begins with her running a She Runs The Night race in Sydney which allowed her to start off mid running journey and explore women's safety issues, but then further examine the role of women in sport. She took an interesting tack toward the end when she explored the question of whether the knocks against slower runners were really knocks against women runners. She's really against the patriarchy in running and while I don't disagree with her, it's not an issue I feel as strongly about.Overall, a good read. I just wished there was more on the deferred marathons as well as the ones she finally ran.

I'm rereading this right now, and reminded of how this is not just a book about running. It's a book about women running in history, and the author's attempts to trace the (usually poorly recorded) roots of that, and, perhaps more than anything else, it's a book about grief. But somehow, at the same time, it's about running for the joy of it -- and not running to crush records and achieve better splits or even to become an amazing athlete.It's about the freedom that running provides -- not just freedom from things (like freedom from a life stuck in a rut), but freedom for things. Freedom for processing grief. Freedom for thinking. Freedom for writing. Menzies-Pike has a degree in modernist literature, and it shows. My favorite writing about running always links the two processes -- the process of running and the process of writing. Both activities too often result simply in a product that we see: a book, or a minute per mile time. Menzies-Pike skillfully draws out the hard-won joy of running, and she writes about it eloquently.This is a book for every kind of runner, and for those who don't run at all. It's about what goes on in your mind, heart, and spirit when you run, and it's about communing, through running, with the little-known women who came before you. All this could become melodramatic and overblown in the hands of a less-skilled writer, but Menzies-Pike pulls it off naturally and (seemingly) effortlessly.

First, I should probably tell you that I am not a runner. I know a few people who run, who run half-marathons, who want to run full marathons, but that's never, ever been me. So when I won an advanced reader copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway, I wasn't sure what to expect. Would this be a blow by blow book on how to train to run a long race? Would it be a sad tale of the grief the author dealt with after her parents died unexpectedly? Would it be the story about how she pulled herself up by her bootstraps and faced the world while running, hoping it would provide distraction from her grief? Well, it's a little bit of all of these, and a whole lot more.This book is remarkably well written and entertaining. The author doesn't take herself too seriously. The book does spend some time discussing the loss of her parents and how she felt lost herself following their untimely deaths when she was at university. She discusses how she plowed on with her education and traveled in an attempt to come to terms with the premature death of her mother and father. To a lesser degree, she touches on the connections she had with her sisters, aunts, grandparents, cousins, and friends. (To be honest, I would have like to see a little more about how she interacted with her family following her loss. She never goes into much detail about where her sisters wound up, or why there was a problem with her parents' estate. There are just brief mentions about these things, but I don't think the real focus of this book is on the author's losses. It's more about how she eventually found a way out of that darkness and the part that running played in her move back into the light.) But all of that only forms the skeleton on which this book is built. On those bones, the author layers an interesting selection of information revolving around the culture and history of women runners. She discusses why women were discouraged from running for so long, on the commitment that running requires, on art in relation to running, on running clothing and how it's evolved over the years. As the author herself says, she only scratches the surface of this history and the women who paved the way for today's women's long distance runners.Despite the fact that I received an uncorrected proof of this book, the writing is impeccable. I'm a fussy reader, and I didn't notice a single typographical, contextual, or spelling error. Not overly surprising when the author holds a PhD in literature, I guess. It's one of the best ARCs I've received from any source. One of my favorite lines form this book, and there are many:Running has a way of dragging you into the present moment of exertion.While I didn't know what I was going to get in this book, I wasn't at all disappointed at what I found when I started reading. It includes a lot of interesting and, to me, obscure history and cultural background concerning women runners. She offered just enough detail to hone my interest, but not enough to bore me. She's spurred me on to want to do more research on some of the things people and things she brought up. It's also not an overly long book. My copy has 232 actual textual pages. I suppose if I had more interest in running, I'd have zipped through this book in an evening or two.I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever exerted themselves in any physical way, as a child, as a teenager, as an adult. It doesn't require running to understand how the author used the physical movement of her runs to help overcome her grief. And while you read, it's likely that you'll learn something about how women were restricted, for no provable reason, from fully participating in the sport until the latter half of the twentieth century.I'll be passing my copy of this book onto a young relative who enjoys running. I think it will be appreciated.

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