The main thought that came to mind as I read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years is that Donald Miller must be a really nice guy. He writes from the heart and wants his life to matter. And while I thought the book started out slow, maybe that's the way it needed to be. Honestly, to savor our days and get as much out of them as possible, we have to reduce our speed. And Donald Miller's main objective in the book is to encourage the reader to make special moments, to eat life. I get it.At the same time I get the impression that I'm *supposed* to like this book. It didn't wow me, and I did enjoy it, but it's not like I couldn't wait to pick it up again. I've read other reviews where folks used enthusiastic adjectives to describe it. Yes, it was thought-provoking, but not the book of the century. Inspiring, but simply so.
Or maybe reading the brief biography of Miller on the dust jacket put me off. To find him working on a task force of the President's was a bit disheartening. Seems our current leader has his name draped all over the place, even inside the cover of a seemingly unrelated book. For me, that made a deep impression.
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