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THE READERS' REVIEW
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AUTHOR PROFILES
In conjunction with New Selections, Author Profiles is a place where authors of books in any genre or on any subject can give a brief synopsis of each book written and a small auto-biography of the writer himself.
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READER PROFILES
A spotlight on readers, for those who wish to express their love of reading in the written form, along with a brief synopsis or list of books read, as well as a short biography of the reviewer himself.
Submitted Reader Profiles will be published uncensored.
In Thomas Shor’s narrative the absorbing writing is the least of his gifts: he creates the imaginative adventure of his life as he lives it. He plunges into the story almost by accident, leaving a steamer bound for Athens by mistake at Corfu. But in Thomas Shor’s life there are no mistakes, only opportunities, and before long we find him sharing the life of the last surviving monk at a monastery high on Mount Pantokrator, his meals of chick peas, garlic and olive oil, his toils, and the dense fogs and storms of the highest mountain on Corfu. The old monk wants him to become his successor, but life runs on, leading perhaps inevitably to the Indian sub-continent, where he is at present teaching English to the novices at the Ringhim Buddhist monastery in North Sikkim, only sixteen miles of the highest mountains in the world from Tibet, where a deluded Lama a few years before had offered to lead an ill-fated expedition to Shangri-La itself.
Thomas Shor’s life is a continual unfolding of those inner and outer worlds which his sense of wonder discovers continually. His story reminds us that we are, or could be, travelers in a world of marvels, of love, and encounters with men and women themselves on pilgrimages of the imagination. Did not the Emperor Haroun al-Rashid for a thousand and one nights hear in the city of Baghdad endless stories that make up the one story of the world? Once involved in Thomas Shor’s adventure of life, one hopes only for more.
