Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Ratings420
Average rating3.7
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Ratings420
Average rating3.7
What would you change if you could travel back in time?
If you could go back, who would you want to meet?
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which 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 cafe in the hopes of making that journey. But tiem travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can take only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story – translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot – explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
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2 primary booksBefore the Coffee Gets Cold is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and Geoffrey Trousselot.
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This book was delightful. I read it because someone in my feed gave it a good rating, and it turned out to be the magical realism I needed right now. I'm looking forward to reading book #2. (Everything else I wanted to say was a spoiler!)
There is nobody I would want to see badly enough to go through this many rules of time travel.
Couldn't handle the writing style. Stating the obvious, telling me the same thing three times, etc.
If you like scifi that doesn't seem like scifi, this book is for you. If you like time travel but you'd like to read a different type of time travel, this book is for you. If you prefer more character driven and emotional stories, this book is for you.
This will make my top 10 favorites of the year, no doubt.
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