Yesterday, after ~21 months/~1900h of study, I finished my first novel, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (解忧杂货店)
It’s a very slice-of-life/drama novel with a touch of mystery, but no romance. Without going into too much detail, in case you wanna read it, three boys end up in an old store and start receiving mysterious letters at night. This is probably about as easy as an adult novel gets. I’ve tried several others before, but most were harder, or at least they felt like they were.
Even tho I had to listen to it at 0.7x speed and I probably had like ~75% comprehension, it still feels like a breakthrough. The plot is actually moderately easy to



