GJ部 1

I only listened to this as an audiobook, which has 5 voice actors plus the narrator and is very well done. As other reviewers mention, it's a series of slice of life stories in the titular GJ部. As a novel, I could see it being repetitive after a while, but as an audiobook it was fun and low stakes listening that I could do a few minutes at a time.

In the atogaki the author said he calls the stories 四コマ小説 in that much like 4-koma manga they are short, easy to read quickly, and don't require you

Everyone has to start reading somewhere

I decided to try and break into reading LNs/novels a few months ago and started looking at lower difficulty options; having watched GJ-部 ages ago, and seeing that the suggested difficulty was so low, I gave it a shot. The language used was pretty daunting at first, but after a few weeks of reading, making flashcards, and re-reading earlier chapters, I quickly got the hang of things and reading became much easier. I especially noticed improvement when I took a break to try reading something else