What Mike's Reading

Every March since 2021, I’ve been doing podcast project called “Marchy McFly” where I spend an entire month talking about one of the Back to the Future movies. At first the idea of the show as watch Back to the Future every day in March and podcast about it every day. Yes, watch the same movie over and over for 31 days and do 31 podcasts on it.

That lasted through the entire trilogy and I was fully expecting to move on. Then I remembered there was a cartoon series, and well – March without a monthly podcast is rather boring. So I brought it back for a fourth year.

THEN I thought, wait what I do something different and keep it going for ANOTHER three years? And that’s what I started doing last year. Instead of watching the movie 31 times in 31 days – I’ll watch it ONE time over 31 days – and podcast about that short segment of the movie only (or mostly only).

Now, I am in currently in year two of that project and 18 days into watching Back to the Future Part II. So when I saw this book pop up as a suggestion I first though – why haven’t I read this yet? And what is stopping me now?

Sure, this is 100% focused on the original movie and doesn’t focus on the sequels, but it’s still celebrating Back to the Future – and I made up the rules of this made up project anyway – so I decided I was going to read it this month.

I planned on buying it and having it be my next book – but then I found it on the Libby library app for free, so I added my name to the waitlist and luckily the book became available very quickly.

I’ve always considered myself a fairly slow reader, but I think the more I’ve been reading these past couple years the better I am actually getting at it – even in my 40s (for a few more months!!)

So when I saw this was only around 150 pages I thought, I can get through this book in a week easily. Took me about 2 days.

It was a really enjoyable read and although I knew a lot of what was in the book, I still learned some new things and really enjoyed hearing all of this from Michael J. Fox’s perspective.

Totally recommend for any fan of Back to the Future. Which should be everyone.