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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1

By: Miya Kazuki, quof - translator, You Shiina - illustrator
Narrated by: Reba Buhr
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A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

©2023 J-Novel Club (P)2023 J-Novel Club Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy Young Adult

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I enjoyed both the anime and light novels. So have enjoyed this new interpretation

New interpretation

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Where’s the next one?! I’m totally hooked on the anime and can’t remember how many times I’ve watched the full series. I thoroughly enjoyed every single episode and even more listening to the audiobook. Myne truly is amazing and crazy about her books. Her determination to make her own books is something else. At times she can be a bit selfish but as she got used to being Myne, she learns to value her family and friends. This series is truly enjoyable and very addictive. This is highly recommended title and I doubt that you’ll get bored. Please can we have the next installment? Thanks for all your hard work xx

Detailed and excellently entertaining

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I am always skeptical picking up Japanese translated novels due to I usually watch their TV counterparts in Japanese and find it hard to like the English cast a lot. The performance here is great though, they do a great job at creating a child voice that isn't annoying or obnoxious and whilst not a perfect fit, it does fit Myne relatively well. The story is as good as I remember the anime to be and can't wait to see more of these books released, the series is amazing and having the audio book version is just a treasure for true fans to enjoy more content.

Great story and performance!

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The performance was absolutely perfect for the character and the story has been one of my favourites since discovering the show

Astounding performance

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I’ve watched the anime adaptation for this series and its one of my favourites so I was really happy to see the light novel get translated. The narrator (The voice for Myne in the anime) was great not only with Myne but the other characters too. The only downside to reading the audiobook version is you end up missing all the illustrations that come with the light novel. Luckily I was able to find them all posted on the series Fandom Page.

Loved this Adaptation

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A thoroughly thought out fantasy world. Explored from the perspective a modern day woman trapped in the body of a frail peasant girl
The world is so realised, the characters so enjoyable, and the performance is top notch

Can't wait for more

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I can’t stand the main character. She prides herself on being a bookworm who supposedly knows a ton of stuff, but in reality, she’s clueless.

She loves books but has only a whisper of an idea how they’re made—even the basics of working with clay are beyond her. She criticizes religion, yet she turns around and prays to God, when begging for things to go her way.

She’s quick to call everyone else annoying and pitiful, but honestly, she’s the worst of the bunch. She rarely lifts a finger to help anyone, unless it benefits her, yet she whines endlessly when people don’t do favors for her—often resorting to manipulation to get what she wants.

What’s even more frustrating is her complete lack of curiosity about the new world she’s in. Radishes that scream when you cut them, trees that grow meters in days and fling their fruits, mushrooms that dance—and her reaction is just, “Ah well, It is what it is." like come on!

Not to mention, the world-building is all messed up. People dont clean anything and don’t know a thing about cooking. They don’t know about meat stock or fish stock, don’t know what dried fish looks like, or what to do with it. In reality, poor people MUST know how to extract every calorie from the food they cook, but nooo, these guys don’t know anything and are amazed by tasty food while they have plenty of vegetables, meat, fish, salt AND spices. Its like they have never experimented with any flavours. they also claim to be poor but not once did she go hungry.

From our own history, we know that humans used every single part of an animal since primitive times, but these people don’t even know how glue is made from animals, despite how diverse the methods of making animal glue are.

I hope that the next book is better, with magic and all that. At least for this one, the voice acting is good.

great world ruined by poor character writing

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So first of all, it was an interesting concept and the narration was really good, at least for me. I really liked that we only got to know about the world through a small childs view. It is a light readand BUUUT then came the Pig day part -.- and I understand that there are people who are far removed from the source of the meat that we consume BUUT FOR GOD SAKE it is not some kind of medieval, fantasy, iseaki trope. It is a still existing tradition here in Eastern Europe. One of my favourite! Reading about it in such a bad light I felt a little bit salty...
However all together I feel sad that I could find the first part in an audiobook...hope there will be a continuation.

mixed feelings

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