Two Pompeiis

In June I read two different books involving the city Pompeii. The first was New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey and the second was Pompeii by Robert Harris.

( New_Pompeii )

People (somehow) positively compare New Pompeii with Michael Crichton's Timeline. Do not believe them. Timeline is unfathomably better than this book. Timeline is one of my favorite books of all time. Please, read Timeline (at least give it a shot, I know the beginning can be quite boring until they actually time travel).

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( Pompeii )

"She saw a town—our town—many years from now. A thousand years distant maybe more." He let his voice fall to a whisper. "She saw a city famed throughout the world. Our temples, our amphitheater, our streets—thronging with people of every tongue. That was what she saw in the guts of the snakes. Long after the Caesars are dust and the empire has passed away, what we have built here will endure." —Pompeii, Harris

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I finally really really ran out of bookshelf space. Even with all my books squished together and on top of each other. Even with a couple of vanity shelves on the wall with manga lining them. I have too many books for the amount of shelf space.

In 2018 I started reading Kindle books because I was running out of physical space. Started really utilizing my local library soon after that too. And yet, here I am two years later with no more space.
I even have a stack of books in the closet 😭

The last time I cleaned out my collection was March 2019 I think. I remember donating a brand new book that sucked to the library and I sold all my Vampire Knight volumes ✌ I have another bundle of books to give away, but world things happened. So that pile has been in a bankers box in the corner of my room since April :^\

I still need to buy a few more volumes of Kuroko's Basketball and I am absolutely buying the Blue Wraith omnibus in September. So I went out today and bought another bookshelf. Another bookshelf I am going to stuff FULL of books lmao. But this means I need to clean and sort through what I have once more. The donation pile may get larger. Out of all the books I physically own only about 30 are unread though so I think I'm doing really good on that front 👍