Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life is another home run (the follow-up to the bestselling Blue Like Jazz). Amazingly, it came about after Miller froze while trying to convert his former book into a screenplay. Sounds familiar, yes?
Yes.
Publishers Weekly writes,
Miller, the accidental memoirist who struck gold with the likable ramble Blue Like Jazz, writes about the challenges inherent in getting unstuck creatively and spiritually. After Jazz sold more than a million copies but his other books didn’t follow suit, he had a classic case of writer’s block. Two movie producers contacted him about creating a film out of his life, but Miller’s initial enthusiasm was dampened when they concluded that his real life needed doctoring lest it be too directionless for the screen. Real stories, he learned, require characters who suffer and overcome. In desultory fashion, Miller sets out to change his own life—to be the kind of guy who seeks out his father, chases the girl and undertakes a quest. Along the way, he comes to understand God as a master storyteller who doesn’t quite control where his characters are going. An unexpected bonus of this book is Miller’s insights into the writing process. Readers who loved Blue Like Jazz will find here a somewhat more mature Miller, still funny as hell but more concerned about making a difference in the world than in merely commenting on it.
Grade: A (hey, it’s Donald Miller!)
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Sounds like a good one!
Krista, yes, you will LOVE this book. I can’t stop thinking about it! And I finished reading it two weeks ago!
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