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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi,

Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: May 1, 2025

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Jan 05, 2021 Kim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

Listened to the audiobook. Japanese stories just hit differently than American and British ones, which is mostly what I read. This is a beautiful, lovely little weaving of the stories of visitors to a coffee shop that allows time travel. The opening story made me think I was going to roll my eyes at a whole book of going to the past to save a lost love, but this was not that. Past, present, and future all get their turn; melancholic reasons and unexpected moments of joy and realization make this ...more

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Jan 05, 2024 Lisa rated it really liked it

Reread.

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Jan 02, 2021 Angie rated it liked it · review of another edition

What a weird little book.

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Mar 27, 2021 Jenna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar-reading-challenge-2021

Like reading a meditative poem.

I feel like I was missing something while reading this book, maybe because the culture is so foreign to me some of the characters actions seem inexplicable, or maybe the translation doesn’t do it justice. But I also can’t stop thinking about this book.

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Sep 11, 2022 Laurie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022

Would you go back in time if it wouldn’t change anything? A short book about this question. I enjoyed reading this Japanese book and seeing glimpses of the characters’ lives.

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