A review by youreadtoomuch
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

5.0

A cafe that can take you back in time but you can only meet others who have been inside the cafe and the present won't change? I was hooked. An interesting book filled with short snippets of lives lived. Somehow the characters I wanted to know the most about weren't really expanded upon but the stories told were somehow the ones I needed. The power to travel and not change a thing felt like a pointless journey but everyone returned with purpose and a new outlook on life, such a beautiful thing to read.

I guess my least fav thing was that one dude that threw away his wife's birthday present because she found it hidden and reminded him to give it to her so he threw it in the trash because he hated being told what to do??? Like she obvs brought it up because she was also excited and didn't want to lie and say she didn't find out about it? That's all.