Tips for reading The Gay Science?

My second semester in university just started and for my new philosophy course I have to read Nietzsche’s The Gay Science. I’ve picked up the 2001 version with an introduction by Bernard Williams. He writes that its a book written in the ‘aphoristic style,’ with sequences that are not necessarily connected.

So I wonder what strategy I can best employ to read this book. Should I just read from cover to cover? What kind of concepts or important details should I keep in mind while reading? How did you all read it? And is there maybe some external literature that can aid in reading and understanding the work?

Thank you in advance!