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Not the best choice for your first book
This used to always be recommended as a "first good book" and I would strongly disagree with that. Even without mentioning children's books, there's a lot of easier LN, novels, etc out there.
The series consists of stories about Kino's travels to different countries. Expect a lot of descriptive text on the way to these places and once our characters arrive there. In addition, this book is rather notorious for the amount of "gun words" you end up picking up. Not sure how useful those will be for you unless you like reading books involving guns!
I haven't watched it, but if you liked this there's multiple anime series. So you can try getting some listening practice in afterwards.