Recent purchases

[Moh]

I only got to play it a few times before I left town, but it's not too bad. I do like the new CAS, and the ability to move rooms around/make them bigger or smaller at the houses.

[esm]

I want to try it, but I decided to buy some 3DS games instead.

Actually, I really liked The Sims (had almost all the extensions), but I never got into The Sims 2 & 3.

[Moh]

That post reminded me that Layton vs Wright came out, so I went and bought an eShop card.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

LOL
my brother has been waiting for Layton vs Wright for 3 (or is it 4?) years.
I personally haven't played it yet bc i'm still only up to the beginning of the 3rd layton game and idk when i'll ever get to finishing them...

[Moh]

I'm almost done with it. My pace has slowed down because of other things, but I've been enjoying it a lot.

I got some socks the other day.

[bisuketto]

I got The Sims 4 too! (yup, it's addictive) I also bought Disgaea: A Promise Unforgotten for PS3. Been on a game hunt for the past couple of weeks.

[erilaz]

I went to New York City last weekend for a certain event. (I won't try to explain it to you, because most people would think I was insane for flying clear across the country for such a thing. ) Anyway, before I left, I made a trip to the Strand Bookstore, and I found this amazing treasure in their rare book room for a mere $15:



It's an edition of prayers for every hour of the day by St. Nerses the Gracious, a 12th-century Catholicos of the Armenian Church, published by the Mechitarist Congregation in Venice in 1862. The title and introduction are in Latin, but the prayers are given in the original Armenian — and also translated into 32 other languages: Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Greenlandic (!), English, Irish, Breton, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian, Georgian, Turkish (in Arabic script), Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldean, Chinese, Ethiopian, Malay (in Arabic script), and Malayalam.

Here are a few sample pages:

Spoiler: show

If you're interested in looking at more, there's a free e-book of this same edition here.

This is one of those oddball things that seem to me as if they had been created with me specifically in mind. Like Bandits, a German movie about female convicts who form a rock band. Or Morning Cereal｡

[Moh]

I'm almost done with it.

I finished Wright/Layton on my birthday. It was a lot of fun.

Bought lots of stuff on my trip, I'll post them some other time.

[boinsie]

Got a new winter jacket and an apron~!

[erilaz]

My friend in Ireland is moving soon, so he wanted to sell off some of his books. My limited storage space and the cost of international shipping forced me to exercise more self-restraint than I might otherwise have done, but man, was it hard! You see, there are few people on the planet whose libraries are so perfectly suited to my own interests: foreign languages, writing systems, historical linguistics, artificial languages, Tolkien translations….

My 8 kg box of books arrived today:

A.G. Abrahamyan, Հայ կրի եւ կրչության պատմություն [= History of Armenian Letters and Writing] (1959)
V. Sarkĕsyan & Kh. Hagopyan, Մաշտոցի բանակը [= Mashdots's Army] (a Western Armenian alphabet book for small children) (2002)
Peter Boyd-Bowman, From Latin to Romance in Sound Charts (1980)
Hreinn Benediktsson (ed.), The First Grammatical Treatise (1972)
Hermann Jantzen, Gotische Sprachdenkmäler [= Monuments of the Gothic Language] (1929)
Vivian Salmon (ed.), The Works of Francis Lodwick (1972)
J.R.R. Tolkien, A Hobbit (Hungarian translation of The Hobbit) (2006)
J.R.R. Tolkien, 호비트의 모험 (Korean translation of The Hobbit) (2004)
J.R.R. Tolkien, هابيت يا آنجا و بازگشت دوباره (Persian translation of The Hobbit) (2004)
J.R.R. Tolkien, ارباب حلقه‌ها (Persian translation of The Lord of the Rings) (3 vols., 2002-06)
J.R.R. Tolkien, سیلماریلیون (Persian translation of The Silmarillion) (2007)
J.R.R. Tolkien, Yüzüklerin Efendisi (Turkish translation of The Lord of the Rings) (3 vols., 1999)

I also have a Turkish Hobbit coming separately.