Ascendence of a bookworm
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Since the whole story is told from her perspective we see some of her more selfish, petty thoughts but we can't honestly blame her because aren't there times when we all act only in our own self-interest? She feels true and real, and never during the story did I get tired of her voice as the narrator. She has her ups and downs, just as any normal person does, and it is this humanity that makes it easy for any reader to relate to her. She is incredibly human, sometimes painfully so as she acts in selfish ways that are an obvious burden on her kind family. Most 'alternate universe hero' stories are shameless wish-fulfillment with mary-sue main characters.
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Enough detail is poured in that tiny things like Main finally being able to live in a clean environment become major victories that the reader becomes invested in. When Main first awakens in the new world she realizes just how dirty, pestilent, uncultured and restrictive life can be. It is a very realistic representation of how lower-class people may have lived during medieval times. Since the whole story revolves around the life of a little girl in a fantasy village, the reader spends a lot of time finding out how the world works here. One is the amount of detail the author puts into the world.
#ASCENDENCE OF A BOOKWORM SERIES#
Two things make this book, and the series it starts, absolutely amazing. So begins Main's adventures to create her own cultural revolution. Unfortunately books are expensive things only owned by nobles, and even learning to read is something most of the people in her city will never do. No saving the world, no rescuing damsels in distress, she just wants lots of books. In this new world our heroine, Main (pronounced like 'mine'), has only one goal: to surround herself with books. Rather than being about a lonely teenager becoming the hero he's always dreamed of being, this story is about a bookworm college graduate getting transferred into the body of a young soldier's daughter living in near-poverty in a fantastic world. N Absolutely amazing.Īmong a flood of current Japanese novels about getting stuck in fantasy worlds this one really stands out.
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Among a flood of current Japanese novels about getting stuck in fantasy worlds this one really stands out. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them!ĭive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!. Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist.
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She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of mon 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. 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.