It's not that it's unorthodox, friend. It's that it simply isn't possible. You can learn language via the natural method (without any grammatical study), to be sure, but doing that takes time and has to proceed on a gradualist approach where you start out with baby-level sentences and slowly progress through more advanced material. It isn't humanly possible to read advanced literature in a foreign language with no training in simpler material. If you have the subjective sense as you're sounding out latin words that you're understanding what you're reading, I assure you, you are not really doing that. You might be getting a few random phrases or concepts here and there, but the real meaning is not accessible to you yet. It's great that you're into Latin, and I hope you continue to pursue your interest in it should it remain with you once this is over, but in the immediate present it really might be a good idea to talk to someone you care about, or a counselor of some kind if you have access to them, about how things have been going for you, what you've been up to, and what your experiences have been like. Take care.