Pensavo meglio
3 stars
Molto commovente ma speravo meglio.
213 pages
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2019
Before the coffee gets cold
4 stars
(3 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.