Now that we’re almost done, I’m curious, who is planning on reading the next book? I’m definitely going to buy (and start reading) that second volume soon. I already have so many other things that I’m reading, but this first book has been the perfect level for me to learn a lot of vocab, while sticking to simple grammar patterns, so it’s not too exhausting to read.
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I plan on buying the rest of the series but it is still a bit too high of a level for me to try reading without multiple look ups, sometimes in the same sentence, so it will be a while before I start reading them.
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I’m not. Barring some huge revelation about how the Dagashiya works in a later volume, I feel like I’ve gotten what I want out of the story with the first book.
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I may seek out other short stories at around this level perhaps. The format is good but 駄菓子屋 is a bit weird in terms of difficulty/reward for my taste. Fun with the club though
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I’m definitely going to read vol 2 and 3. I really enjoy it as something reliably easy and light hearted that I can read in paperback format in bed on the weekends. I don’t understand every single word, but as long as I understand the story, I just keep going, and often just rereading a chapter helps to answer any questions. I also have the guide book, so if something confuses me, normally I just do lookups later on the one page summary, and then it’s easy enough to keep going. Not sure why I’m so drawn to these stories, I really love them.
There’s a club on WK for volumes 2+ and they have a vocab sheet and discussion for vol 2. I haven’t looked at the vocab sheet and discussion yet but it’s nice to know it’s there!
I use other books to read more intensively and study.
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I’ll be continuing the series, too! 
It’s at a nice level and the episodic nature of the stories means it’s easy to just pick up and read a chapter here and there.
Since there’s some interest, I’ll put up an offshoot book club thread after we finish this volume. 
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I’ve made the offshoot thread, as well. 
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Just popping in to say, I’ve started reading book 1 thanks to this club, and I’m very grateful to have found it! Like HopeWaterfall said, the grammar (in Korean) isn’t too hard, I am having to do lots of look ups but the format is nice and motivating - I’m a few pages shy of finishing chapter 1 and that’ll be like a (really) short story read!
Really good choice for a book club 
And I would definitely recommend it to higher beginners / lower intermediate learners looking to read an actual novel, it’s not as scary as it seems!
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