Ample Archaic Articles Are Available Again All August!
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Excited for Sponger and Dahlia and Bloodline, you guys got me hooked on Stepmoms Daughter is my Ex so I’ll be buying those volumes and give Protags Sister a try.
Sadly I just bought all of Mapping on Bookwalker but hey I hope folks enjoy it.
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The Sidekick Never Gets the Girl is great, except it just ends mid-plot arc at 2 volumes after either the publisher axed it or the author did.
It really needed at least one more volume to reach a good pause point.
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@Kurzaa I did that once just by going into each section, then leaving... it'll show them all at 0-5% or something. Kinda tedious, but works.
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@Kilocron figured out while reading that it resets that part, so if I have to stop reading in the middle, it at least remembers where I stopped. So I just need to remember the part I have yet to start re-reading.
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@Kurzaa well that's kinda what I mean. Just open up the future part, then back right out. Rise and repeat. Then it'll remember them all at 0%-ish.
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@Kurzaa Unfortunately, for the only solution I have I'm not sure if it works in the app. However... on the website, if you hover over a part, it'll tell you how far into the part your bookmark is.
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@Kurzaa To remember which was last part you read in the its simply as this:
Long press in the part, will open a menu, the select "open.book", and it will show you ALL THE PARTS in that book., so all you had have read on Green, the ones reading on Blue, and in white the ones UNREAD
... other option is to select "Series" on the button bar, go to the series you want to check, and keep opening every volumen, until u find which one was last you read.
Itoh: I don't think I'll try any series this month.
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Tried "Cooking with Wild Game!" and wow, it is such a striking example of making the other-world characters implausibly un-knowledgeable just to let the our-world character teach them things. Interesting to contrast with historical accounts of hunter-gatherers like http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1377
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@aZaphos while I definitely think they should've figured more out, it's worth pointing out that in lore, they've been doing that specific kind of hunting for about 3 generations. The world does know that knowledge, but this tribe of people didn't need to know it in their previous lifestyle (entirely different food sources there, hunting small prey rather than big boars).
The author has definitely constructed a story where the MC gets to be the saviour, but their lack of knowledge does get justified further down the line (of course at its current pacing the manga will take so many years to get there). -
@GeorgeMTO Ah interesting, thanks! Yeah 3 generations does still seem like enough time to have thought about a way to at least keep more of the meat when they're hunting that much though!
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@aZaphos oh they know how to keep more of the meat, they simply choose not to.
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@GeorgeMTO Yup. They can't hunt less without causing issues with the people outside the forest, and they can't sell the meat (until Asuta comes up with a way to make it palatable to other people). So before the story starts, there was no real reason to use more of each giba.
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Is Bloodline completed at two volumes or was axed?
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@Lex
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For those who are reading Ascendance of a Bookworm and up to date on pre-pub release. Use the referenced post https://forums.j-novel.club/post/213316 to find an inspired review of Dahlia in Bloom in the context of the Ascendance of a Bookworm universe.
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10/10 title and opening
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A bit slow on my part to realize Dahlia is on ketchup.
I had some problems with it at first [some of the early commentary in-story concerning drinking bothered me a lot.]
If you find that also being a problem for you initially, soldier on!
While Food Porn continues to abound, there's just enough backing off from the drinking aspects to no longer bother me, and the rest of the story is wondrous.
And they succeed in linking all the Food Porn into necessary plot development to a far greater extent than many do; it ties into product development in a very believable manner.Anyway, it's well worth checking out while you have the chance.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Ample Archaic Articles Are Available Again All August!:
While Food Porn continues to abound, there's just enough backing off from the drinking aspects to no longer bother me, and the rest of the story is wondrous.
Thanks, the repeated drinking contests in volume 1 was one of the reasons I gave up after that. I wasn't offended or triggered, it's just not my cup of tea. (That would be Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold.)
It sounds like I should give it another try while I can do it as a free trial before buying.
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It's a bit late to ask, but is Sponger Life really about someone who just lives off of spouse in another world? Does he stay a useless parasite?
The description is so far away from something I'd want to read that I've never given it a try.
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@HarmlessDave said in Ample Archaic Articles Are Available Again All August!:
It's a bit late to ask, but is Sponger Life really about someone who just lives off of spouse in another world? Does he stay a useless parasite?
No, he doesn't stay useless, that's kind of the point. He gets more and more involved in politics as the series goes on (mostly out of necessity because things just keep happening), and she's upset about it because she knows she promised him that, so a there's them dealing with that, too.
