JOIN US. So like, I just finished IJ, and I'm super stoked about it cause it's been a several month long process and I had planned to do it a few years ago. Let's chat about it when you're done. No spoilers, I promise, just some stuff I would have done:
Take hella notes. Windows are an important allegory, so pay attention when they come up (I didn't as much as I should have), and re-read the first 50 or so pages whenever you finish it. Don't really stretch your noggin trying to put the story together too much, it was pretty much made to be intentionally distracting to the linear progress of events, and there's plenty of resources you can find afterwards that tie it together in a linear fashion. Resist all temptation to look at them while you're reading it, though. And just enjoy it, it's an amazing novel. It really drives home the place and purpose of literature in modern times.