Donald Miller's "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" is a touching book about how one can make our lives better by trying to create a more meaningful story out of our otherwise seemingly 'worthless' life.The author starts off with the description of his life as a boring existence with nothing to look forward to - even though he's a successful writer. He only gets the taste of real life when two filmmakers approach him to make a movie out of a book he wrote in the past. This kicked off a series of adventure in which he created new stories out of his 'boring' life and in the process came in contact of many instances where normal people creates a better life by living a better story of their lives. There are many scenes in this book which makes it such a pleasure to read - like the story in which the father all out to impress her daughter, the family who jumps into the water to bade their guest farewell, or the parade that they started at new year which has become a trend in their locality.
On the whole, this book comes as a good reference for living a better life. But it is different with other similar books because it doesn't try to lecture on life and what's wrong and right of life. But this book cleverly focus on the writer experience and little anecdotes of life that we can follow to make our life a better story. A good read with lots of lesson to learn about life.
