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Ascendance of a Bookworm
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4 | 13% (99 votes) |
3 | 7% (51 votes) |
2 | 4% (28 votes) |
1 | 12% (88 votes) |
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677 WN Chapters (Complete)
47 Omake Chapters (Ongoing)
33 LN Volumes (Complete)
1 Gaiden Volume
2 Short Story Compilations
5 Fan Books
7 Drama CDs
47 Omake Chapters (Ongoing)
33 LN Volumes (Complete)
1 Gaiden Volume
2 Short Story Compilations
5 Fan Books
7 Drama CDs
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Yes
Completely Translated
No
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Every 124 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #3021Monthly Rank: #4290
All Time Rank: #282
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On 13201 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #6752
All Time Rank: #124
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A bookworm who had finally found a job as a librarian at a university was sadly killed shortly after graduating from college.
She was reborn as Myne, the daughter of a soldier in a world where the literacy rate is low and books were scarce. No matter how much she wanted to read, there were no books around. What is a bookworm to do without any books? Make them, of course.
Her goal is to become a librarian! So that she may once again live surrounded by books, she must start by making them herself.
Associated Names
One entry per lineAscendence of a Bookworm: I'll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian
El Ratón de Biblioteca
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
La Petite Faiseuse de Livres
愛書的下克上
本好きの下剋上 ~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
책벌레의 하극상
El Ratón de Biblioteca
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
La Petite Faiseuse de Livres
愛書的下克上
本好きの下剋上 ~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~
책벌레의 하극상
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I just finished reading the raws, and it's a shame the translation isn't further along. I've never been s**ked into a WN as much as I have this one. Many, many tears were shed. I can't get up the urge to start a new novel when I could instead reread Bookworm for a third time in a row.
The MC is a bit self centered and aggravating in the first part of the series, the part that's been translated, but the author has said that it's intentional. Maine learning to balance her own desires with more important things is a big part of the series.
While I love every bit of Bookworm, the first part (there are 5) is probably the least representative of the series as a whole. This story goes places you would not expect.
Reason
The reason I hate it is because she end up getting married to Ferdinand (chief priest/head priest). She doesn't really needed to get married to the sole reason her life became chaotic.
It all started with the knights and Thrombe incident. If he didn't show her off the nobles without be interested in her. And she wouldn't have to sign a contract with a noble and be separated with her families to the point that they must not treat each other as a family even if they are alone.
By signing with a noble not only is she a senior aristocrat she also became the Lords adopted daughter. He even wrote the saint scenario. And because of that she became well known not only within the territory but also outside the country.
The contract magic is only applicable inside the territory meaning that once she's outside she can become family again. But thanks to becoming a saint it becamei impossible to love among the masses.
Myne was in a coma for 2 years and it was not impossible for her to die due to the event of ARC III. It would have been already for Rosemyne to die their and then and Myne could live with her family in another territory. But no instead before could move her body every body is already preparing her to attend Aristocracy school. Myne couldn't even lift her arm without magic tools and they are already sending her their. Is that the thanks you get for rescuing the lords daughter and end up sleeping for 2 years.
Myne end up being a living goddess to win the war at the end but it caused her her memory of all her loved ones. And Ferdinand showed her his memories so would have knowledge of her loved ones. This in of inself is bad. Because this is one sided. Myne at that point is an empty husk and Ferdinand just fill her up with his "own" emotion. And this making Myne no longer Myne. Lutz even said so himself that Myne is no longer the Myne she knew. And the supposedly emotional reunion of family after 7 long years (myne, turi, gunter, eva, and Kamil) Myne sticks too much with Ferdinand and the meeting only lasted for 1-2 freaking bells and she left hand in hand with Ferdinand. Maybe I'm just dense but I didn't see I single time that myne awaken her love for Ferdinand before the memory transfer.
Ferdinand is a freaking lolicon caused at the very end he is already nearing 40s while Myne is 14 who looks like 10
1. The plot is very well executed, even if the plot device (reincarnation) has been beaten to death more times than a Kulack in Stalinist Russia. The pacing is well done and everything tends to make sense in one form or another.
2. Character development is present and well done. It is also natural which makes it more enjoyable to see.
3. Less on the author and more the translator, it is just well written.
- A twenty-two-year-old bookworm dies and is reborn in a generically medieval setting. Unfortunately, the body she starts inhabiting is extremely weak due to excessive magical power. Despite how her family is poor as sh*t and she basically can't contribute to their household in any way thanks to said weakness, she decides she absolutely has to have a book and, since books are so expensive in this world, thus embarks on a (very slow-paced) journey to make one. Along the way, she befriends her neighbor, Lutz, who wants to be a merchant, and when she rips off items from her past life, a local merchant takes notice. They figure out how to make money and then they make paper and a whole bunch of other stuff happens, but it's all so bland I didn't retain any of it. I'm not marking any of this as a spoiler because I doubt anyone's going to make it to this point in the story anyway. It's bad.
Pros:- The translation is good
- Vaguely educational? (You'll learn about how paper is made, sort of, though I don't know how accurate any of this is to real life)
- The magic aspect is interesting?? I guess?? Not that it comes up much beyond moments where the MC comes close to death
- It's free
- If you're like the MC, you'll take delight in how many words are in each chapter (and possibly rub your face on the screen while drooling, idk)
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