Paul Shore's Blog: Uncork Yourself, page 2
January 19, 2017
"Forget Frivolous"
Uncorked : My year in Provence studying pétanque, discovering Chagall, drinking pastis, and mangling French
It is of course my hope that "Uncorked" will touch and amuse, spark wanderlust and evoke fond memories of travel to fascinating places! Though what I also hope it does for many is trigger reflection on the importance of taking risks when afforded new chances in life.
I have a history of having followed paths less travelled and of taking some fairly large and unique risks, yet for some reason I did a lot of self-deprecating when telling people early on that I was writing this book... as if to protect myself from possible failure. A wise cousin of mine brought me back around to my own "why not try?" attitude by telling me, “FORGET FRIVOLOUS PAUL… don’t judge the art man… just DO the art and put it out there!.. especially writing… NOBODY WOULD EVER WRITE A WORD, if they had to truly assess it as beyond frivolous.”
I hope you will consider having a look at "Uncorked" when PRE-SALES OPEN ONLINE FEB 20th...
Print edition available at Amazon, Chapters.Indigo.ca, BarnesandNoble.com;
eBook edition available at Amazon Kindle.
And I hope you will enjoy my storytelling even half as much as my new friend Grant Lawrence did...
"Like a wry cross between Bill Bryson and Dave Bidini, Paul Shore’s funny, self-deprecating and wholesome recounting of a year spent in the French Riviera will ring trés true for anyone who has made the trip to this special but highly exclusive part of the world. Shore captures exactly what it’s like to be a foreign national trying to bust into the local scene. And if you haven’t been to the South of France, Uncorked will have you looking up AirBnBs in places like Saint-Paul de Vence or Villefranche-sur-Mer while you practice your petanqué rolls. One-part travelogue, one part self-help guide, one part memoir, Uncorked is just like a good French wine: light, delicious, and full of flavour."
--Grant Lawrence, CBC broadcaster and author of Adventures in Solitude: what not to wear to a nude potluck and other stories from Desolation Sound
Thank you,
Santé,
Paul.
It is of course my hope that "Uncorked" will touch and amuse, spark wanderlust and evoke fond memories of travel to fascinating places! Though what I also hope it does for many is trigger reflection on the importance of taking risks when afforded new chances in life.
I have a history of having followed paths less travelled and of taking some fairly large and unique risks, yet for some reason I did a lot of self-deprecating when telling people early on that I was writing this book... as if to protect myself from possible failure. A wise cousin of mine brought me back around to my own "why not try?" attitude by telling me, “FORGET FRIVOLOUS PAUL… don’t judge the art man… just DO the art and put it out there!.. especially writing… NOBODY WOULD EVER WRITE A WORD, if they had to truly assess it as beyond frivolous.”
I hope you will consider having a look at "Uncorked" when PRE-SALES OPEN ONLINE FEB 20th...
Print edition available at Amazon, Chapters.Indigo.ca, BarnesandNoble.com;
eBook edition available at Amazon Kindle.
And I hope you will enjoy my storytelling even half as much as my new friend Grant Lawrence did...
"Like a wry cross between Bill Bryson and Dave Bidini, Paul Shore’s funny, self-deprecating and wholesome recounting of a year spent in the French Riviera will ring trés true for anyone who has made the trip to this special but highly exclusive part of the world. Shore captures exactly what it’s like to be a foreign national trying to bust into the local scene. And if you haven’t been to the South of France, Uncorked will have you looking up AirBnBs in places like Saint-Paul de Vence or Villefranche-sur-Mer while you practice your petanqué rolls. One-part travelogue, one part self-help guide, one part memoir, Uncorked is just like a good French wine: light, delicious, and full of flavour."
--Grant Lawrence, CBC broadcaster and author of Adventures in Solitude: what not to wear to a nude potluck and other stories from Desolation Sound
Thank you,
Santé,
Paul.
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