G the other's death The Sorrow Proper attempts to illustrate how humans of all relations—lovers parents colleagues—cope with and challenge social progress a mechanism that reuires we ignore and ultimately forget the residual in order to make room for the new to tell a story that resists The EndThis debut novel explores the hypothetical end of the public library system and a young theory in the hard sciences calle.
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Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBI adored this tiny book about the closing of a library and a certain fading into death of a man? a woman? their love story meeting at the library and the librarians I met Drager at AWP on a panel on Novellas what a brilliant woman Knew I had to go out and get her book This minimalist work proved to be a tender fo
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUB That which will be shrunkmust first be stretchedThat which will be weakenedMust first be strengthenedThat which will be torn downMust first be raised upThat which will be takenMust first be givenChapter #36 of the Tao The above selection from the Tao simply states that for something to be anything it must first be something else For someone to become a teacher they must first be a student For an organization to close it must first be opened In order to feel loss there must first be a sense of connection or ownership For something to cease to exist it must first have existed It's a rule that teaches change is a constant despite our desire for consistency Non existence gives birth to life life gives way to death death gives way to memory and memory fades back into non existence It is cyclical in nature and even
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBHaunting spare and lovely My library shelves it as science fiction but I think it's metaphysical fiction as a group of librarians ponder the closing of the library a deaf mathematician and a photographer meet fall in love and in parallel universes mourn each other's untimely death
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBMore convoluted than complex
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBThis I knowDramatis personae Avis Harriet Genevieve Mercedes librariansA deaf mathematicianA photographerMrs BronsonMr BronsonOf this I am sureOf nothing else can I be sureThe deaf mathematician and the photographer engage in metaphysical discussions but do they inhabit the same realm?For art to succeed one needs to suspend disbeliefThe photographer dies or notThe deaf mathematician is dead or notMr and Mrs Bronson annually acknowledge a tragedy outside the libraryThe librarians are facing momentous change the library as they know it is closing; the books are being removed to make space for technologies; the children's section is being re badged as The Pre Adult Centre Nightly they congregate at the local bar and ruminate what makes a library Strange word 'library' What does it mean?I think it's fair to admit that for most of the 148 short pages of this novel I was alternately baffled or bemused
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBI picked this book up at my local library first because I loved the cover and second I found the title intriguing Sadly I could not read the synopsis on the back of the book because the library had pasted the scan bar right on top of it so I went into reading this book ignorant to its plot Well I'm so glad I did because this book was a wonderfully surprisingly fantastic read I look forward to reading from this author in the future Here is a blurb from the publisher This debut novel explores the hypothetical end of the public library system and a young theory in the hard sciences called Many Worlds a branch of uantum mechanics that strives to prove mathematically that our lives do not follow a singular linear path
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBThis book had potential The style of writing was almost poetic and had a beautiful way of flowing at times However I'm curious as to whether the author has actually ever set foot in a library or spoken to an actual librarian and knows what a library actually does and what being a librarian actually entails The stereotype of the librarian and the library in this story was dis
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBI know that I wrote 3 stars but I'm deeply conflicted about this one There's to this than the star rating I saw this author read over a year ago and have been meaning to pick this one up for a while It began in a promising fashion with the main characters being a deaf mathematician a photographer and a group of librarians watching their library close dow
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBFinishing at the beginning This is Lindsey Drager's first book but I read it last having read her published books in reverse order of their release Unsurprisingly this book was absolutely amazing Similar to her other two books The Lost Daughter Collective and The Archive of Alternate Endings in that it is so stunningly realized and beautifully written I am in total awe of Lindsey Drager Her ability to build a story from simple words small phrases uniue imaginings Seriously this book is unbelievably powerful Three parallel threads 4 librarians a grieving mother and father and a Deaf Mathematician and a Photographer all swirl and interconnect and overlap and diverge and return Gloriously told and emotionally devastating I am at a loss to understand where Drager gets her talents some sort of deal with the Demons of Linguistics or the Angels of Literary Ideas or just an unerring
Kindle Lindsey Drager  The Sorrow Proper PDF ↠ The Sorrow ePUB é  sorrow pdf, proper ebok, The Sorrow kindle, The Sorrow Proper PDF/EPUBThis book is a master class in poetry and prose Every sentence is dense the way an abandoned flower bed is bursting with life planted with intention branching forth of their own volition sweet and thorned and impossibly alive So many books nowadays are long for the sake of it “The Sorrow Proper” is not one of those books You can read it in a matter of hours but I promise you won’t want to Sentences are to be savored possibilities mapped and human growth and digression tracked with the silent pad of your index fingerThe basic plot a mute mathematician and a fastidious photographer meet each other during the photographer’s exhibit at an outdated library on the verge of closing This is where we start and in a way it is how the story ends but no spoilers here The cast also includes aging librarians with a penchant f