A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mickey Live, who has the cool job of "Beyond the Podium" lecturing about South America, Antarctica, and the best apps for travelers while living on board Celebrity Infinity, recommended this book in one of his lecture. I'm glad I stopped him after the lecture to get the author's name so I could find this book when I returned home. It seemed like serendipity when I was able to record Blue Like Jazz for viewing the same time I was able to pick up this book from my local library because this was the movie Miller and two other writers adapted from his memoir.

Miller is not the first inspirational author to recommend changing your life by making a better story; he simply takes that idea and runs with it, step by step, while he explores the need for cohesive action, character development, inciting incidents, climatic moments, and resolution. And then he explains why life does not end at the same place where credits might run at the end of the movie. Even if you have no motivation to change your life, this book can be enjoyed as a memoir with scenes about some remarkable characters Miller meets.

I recommend this book to all readers, and that is why it gets 4 stars. It gets the fifth star because I plan to buttonhole a few people while I recommend this to them, and I plan to re-read the book at regular intervals.




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