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You studied Sumerian?

Well, I only did it for 5 weeks, and I'm not doing it when I go back, so no! Really I was studying Akkadian, but it involves reading Sumerograms.
The first text was Hammurabi's law code. I looked at it after five weeks of studying an immensely complicated language I knew next to nothing about and went, "Bluh?" I'd probably have been able to do it given time, but I degraded and I think I'll do something nice and easy like a paper from PPS next time.

I want to study Sumerian! Or other cuneiform languages. I'm reading the Penguin Classics edition from 1999 but in it, the translator says there's loads of clay tablets that haven't been translated because there aren't enough people with the knowledge to do so to get them all done. I don't know if 10 years made a huge difference, but it made me so eager to be someone capable of doing the translating.

I want to go to university but not study.

Just started MISTWOOD by Leah Cypess last night

Just finished reading the newest version of DRAWING DOWN THE MOON by Margot Adler the other night

Beta reading a couple friends' manuscripts that are muy excellente

Lots of good stuff!

is run by my former Supervisor in Akkadian. It's a different language, but it's also written in cuneiform, and the lessons have a coherent structure to them. If you're serious, I could even get you the answers to the exercises.

I'll just stick to my old norse.

Currently reading At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald, who I find interesting because he wrote fairy tales, but not necessarily for kids. I liked this quote by him: "I write, not for children," he wrote, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." It's the kind of fantastical getaway I need right now.

In addition to that, I'm reading Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry. Way different from the MacDonald book, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Rommel: The Desert Fox by Desmond Young

Bonjour Tristesse
from Françoise Sagan, sometimes it's just so good to read classic wrote into your native language.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Just starting book 3.

I'm reading a Reykjavik City Guide right now
And Pynchon's early short stories from "Slow Learner"

Don Delillo - Underworld

Hope it's as good as White Noise. Pleased by its massiveness. Also Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami but (a first for a book of his, having read about 7 others) I'm not enjoying it that much.

i want to read more murakami, you guys recommend some titles to me but forgot it so ?

Kuroshitsuji. I adore Sebas-chan.

Start out with Norwegian Wood, Celia. It's the straightest of his novels.

ok

I actually started with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and then read Norwegian Wood. They're both great, but I prefer The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Norwegian Wood is definitely a lot more straightforward.