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A review by rosegoes3
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I didn’t DISLIKE it, necessarily, but it was so sad. It took me a while to understand that each chapter is about a different person’s journey in the chair and not four separate stories.
It was sad. and kind of reflective? But I still feel like I missed the point of it because either way it wasn’t real? The last story is the saddest.
One of those books where you don’t get the middle until you get to the end.
The tone of it is very straightforward and to-the-point, which may be a translation thing, but made it hard for me to get attached to the book.
It was sad. and kind of reflective? But I still feel like I missed the point of it because either way it wasn’t real? The last story is the saddest.
One of those books where you don’t get the middle until you get to the end.
The tone of it is very straightforward and to-the-point, which may be a translation thing, but made it hard for me to get attached to the book.
Content Warnings
Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship