Before the coffee gets cold book

☕📖 BOOK REVIEW 📖☕ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Before We Forget Kindness” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The fifth instalment in the Before The Coffee Gets Cold series is just as poignant and heartwarming as the previous books. Set in the same time-travelling café in Tokyo, the rules remain: you can return to the past, but you can’t change it, and you must return before your coffee gets cold. Yet, each character’s journey is deeply emotional and unforgettable. In this book, we meet: • A boy longing to show his…

I read Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, as part of a buddy read a few months ago, and while my fellow readers really enjoyed it, I just never warmed to it. While I liked the idea of the story quite a lot I didn’t enjoy the writing. Initially I thought it was because I had just finished reading The Poet X, which is lyrical and almost more of an experience than a book, and Kawaguchi’s writing style is very straight forward and matter-of-fact with no embellishment.

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And now, I’m glad I read it, but how do I make a book about time-traveling to have one meaningful conversation over a cup of coffee NOT sound twee?

before the coffee gets cold

before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 5/5 so good