Pensavo meglio
3 stars
Molto commovente ma speravo meglio.
213 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2019
Before the coffee gets cold
4 stars
(4 reviews)
[Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary] What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
4 stars
Read for our workplace book club of June (I'm a bit early). Based on a simple idea (being able to go back in time but inside a very strict set of rules quite different from usual), in a very small café setting, the author is able to draw several beautiful stories of the people going around, their lives, their wins and losses. It gives a big time for reflection and introspection and made me shed some tears.
"The first rule was: The only people you can meet while in the past are those who have visited the cafe. This would usually defeat the purpose of going back. Another rule was: There is nothing you can do while in the past that will change the present."
Tania reviewed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Heartwarming
4 stars
An easy to read and heartwarming story. It spoke to my sad soul and made me cry, so it must have been good.
Jim Brown reviewed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
meditative time travel novel
This started slow for me, but I did eventually get into it. It could easily be staged as a play, and I think the time travel piece is somewhat interesting (though, the author does try to get around the inevitable plot holes of a time travel story with a series of unexplained "rules").