Apparently my lack of interest in reading hasn't led to a lack of interest in buying books.
Tom Send a noteboard - 19/05/2010 06:29:36 PM
I got really excited at the publication of a new Syriac dictionary to replace Brockelmann's outdated Lexicon Syriacum, namely, Sokoloff's A Syriac Lexicon so I bought that. Then, because I was browsing the Eisenbraun's site, I noticed that they printed a second volume of city omen texts from Mesopotamia with If a City Is Set on a Height, Volume II and I had to get that since I have Volume I. Then I ended up buying the whole series of the State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts (I had previously owned only one of the six volumes in print so I got the other five).
Then, because I had gotten birthday money, I went to the Folio Society website and took advantage of their Spring Sale to get two free boxed sets (one was the full Beatrix Potter collection for my daughter, and then I didn't see anything I really wanted so I ended up ordering the Folio editions of the Norwich Byzantium series and I'll give my current editions to my father-in-law to read), and I ended up getting about nine more books that way. Interestingly enough, the only things that I find interesting to read right now are the Mesopotamian texts (though the Folio books haven't arrived yet).
Then, because I had gotten birthday money, I went to the Folio Society website and took advantage of their Spring Sale to get two free boxed sets (one was the full Beatrix Potter collection for my daughter, and then I didn't see anything I really wanted so I ended up ordering the Folio editions of the Norwich Byzantium series and I'll give my current editions to my father-in-law to read), and I ended up getting about nine more books that way. Interestingly enough, the only things that I find interesting to read right now are the Mesopotamian texts (though the Folio books haven't arrived yet).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 19/05/2010 at 06:30:29 PM
Apparently my lack of interest in reading hasn't led to a lack of interest in buying books.
- 19/05/2010 06:29:36 PM
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*googles the Folio Society*
- 19/05/2010 07:18:47 PM
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I don't know if the "thanks" was sarcastic or not or generally whether to say "you're welcome" 
- 19/05/2010 07:22:05 PM
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- 19/05/2010 07:22:05 PM
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Rock on, brother.
- 21/05/2010 03:43:20 AM
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