a million miles, way to make me think…

December 4, 2009 in best09 with 1 Comment

Best book of 2009:

Donald Miller,

Year after year you make my best-of list. In 2007-2008 I’m pretty sure I’ve read all of your books. This year with the release of  “A Million Miles” and I made a promise to myself not to buy it, until I was done reading the book I was currently wafting through. Months passed, I finished the other book (with motivation of what was to come). Picked up your book and finished it in a week, could have been less time if sleep wasn’t necessary to human existence. Thank you for writing books that are captivating and life -changing.

Sincerely,

me.

So, what was it that captivated me?

Maybe it’s the candid way he lets you into his own life and heart. There aren’t too many of us that would be approached by movie producers and realize that our lives had resulted in nothingness, most of us would be too proud to see past that. His humility led him onward to do greater things than he was doing. He’s leveraged his influence as a writer to help build wells in africa, mentor the fatherless, and challenge the average reader.

I’m average. I don’t do anything spectacular on day in and day out. No one – isn’t dying because of me. I guess that’s enough to make a girl think about where she is and where she’d like to be. And if I’m not using the gifts that God gave me what does that mean?

Donald Miller captures “going through the motions” as a crime to our lives, devestating in the long run, but he does it without making you feel bad, it’s as if we’re in this together, and why not start today?

I loved the book, I’d recomend it to anyone – infact my copy is out right now on loan, but I’d love to give out a few more copies before the year ends.

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  • http://foodloveswriting.com Shannalee

    I really enjoyed Million Miles, too – picked up a copy a day after hearing Donald Miller speak on his tour and being interested enough by his talk to want the book. (And by Susan Isaacs – have you read her “Angry Conversations with God”?)

    My favorite part, I think, was the discussion of our being trees in a forest. The story about a tree isn’t as good of a story as the one about the forest. It makes me remember that my life is part of a grander Story, one that gives it its meaning.

    Also, I totally look at movies and books differently now, both with the “save the cat” idea (the main character doesn’t something randomly nice so we’ll like him) and with the memorable moments (the couple goes to a gorgeous ballroom or flies to a new country, making those scenes memorable). It’s interesting to analyze stories that way.