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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

Donald, who just wrote his autobiography, is offered to help co-write a script for a movie based on his book. The new project gives him a chance – as he puts it – to edit his life, look at it from a new perspective and make decisions about life’s priorities for years to come. In the process he finds he can still become a protagonist capable of overcoming conflict to achieve what he always wanted.

The story itself is not a page turner – but for all the right reasons. Following Donald’s reflections and life edits I felt compelled to scribble on the margins and put the book aside for a while to think about my life and necessary “edits”. One of the biggest advantages of the story is how various colorful characters, by virtue of their lives crossing Donald’s path, influence the protagonist to constantly edit his best self, to drop the assumption of himself having arrived at some final version of life. All in all, by the process of putting together the movie version of his autobiography, Donald successfully drops his „couch potato” lifestyle and embarks on a bike trip across the Southern US. Somewhere between the start and the finish lines, he arrives at better himself - of all audiences: mostly for his own sake.

I’m thankful to Thomas Nelson Publishing for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book.