Book Review: The Winds of All Worlds, by Mikal C Johnson
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 08:42 pmSome of you might remember how, after
I blogged about
trying to teach myself to read cuneiform,
I received an
email from claidheamdanns asking for help writing a birthday
(and later, also a name) in cuneiform for a novel that would shortly be
published. As I blogged at the time, I thought it would be either a five
minute google, or completely beyond me, and hence completely failed to predict
it would be somewhere in between and suck an entire evening out of me. At the
end of the process, I had a page of wedge-shaped marks, a promise of a
dedication in the book, and, in the fullness of time, a gratis copy
of The
Winds of All Worlds by Mikal C. Johnson, with handwritten thank-yous
from
claidheamdanns and the author:
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(aviva_m: "That's your Limmud presenter
blurb!" YHN: "Not any more; this year it's also going to have '...and
created the cuneiform texts in a recently published novel.'" :o))
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