'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a novel centered around a small cafe in Tokyo where customers can time travel by sitting in a specific seat and following a set of rules. Each section of the book features a different character seeking to travel back in time for various reasons, such as seeking closure, revisiting past relationships, or gaining a new perspective on life. The writing style is described as straightforward, with a focus on character development and emotional depth, set against the backdrop of the cafe's unique time-traveling concept.
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Content warnings include themes revolving around dementia, loss of loved ones, illness, and overall elements of emotional distress.
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If you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee-the chance to travel back in time.
Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.
Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?
Ratings (111)
Incredible (10) | |
Loved It (34) | |
Liked It (30) | |
It Was OK (23) | |
Did Not Like (13) | |
Hated It (1) |
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I enjoyed this till I read the 4th one and then I just noped out.
I thought that this was a neat time traveling novel! The rules are fascinating, and while the people can't change the past, they find contentment in the present.
It's nice that we get introduced to all the characters at the start and their surface level characters, but we dive into some of the patron's lives to see how they got into the situation they want to change.
You can predict what happens, but I don't think that makes the book any less sweet.
I think the book suffers from the translation a little bit, it's a bit stilted. Over all, the localization and terms were translated well! It has the classic feel of a slice of life anime.
The absolute tears this one gave me.. ugh so much ugly crying. It's one that I'll revisit for sure.
a book about how and why women should suffer for men and children
I really enjoyed the plot of this story. I found that I wanted more details for each characters arc though. Maybe I’ll read the sequel.
This book made me cry so much! It was so indeering, i loved how it was wrote and the simplicity, i loved the cafe, the philosophical themes it brought up and the issues it discussed
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