Toshikazu Kawaguchi 3 Books Collection Set [Before the Coffee Gets Cold; Tales from the Cafe & Before Your Memory Fades]

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I really wanted to love this especially after reading another Japanese book recently, Four Seasons in Japan, but Before The Coffee Gets Cold wasn’t my cup of tea. You could call each one a chapter, an act, or even a short story that’s heavily interlinked with the other three. Either way, Before the Coffee Gets Coldis comprised of four stories.

Let's just say the cup of coffee was too cold for me and end it here for the more I write about it, the angrier I get. Women are not your incubator, please stop treating us like one. When you choose your UNBORN child over your wife, the apparent Love of your life, you essentially show her how replaceable she is. Last and most important. Drink the coffee before it gets cold or you'll be the ghost to occupy the chair. 🙂

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With faces both familiar and new,the bookfollows four patrons who visit to take advantage of the cafe’s time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers.

What We Are Reading Today: Before the Coffee Gets Cold". Arab News. 2023-05-30 . Retrieved 2023-09-23. While in the third story a man thinks of a gynecologist as a woman’s domain, where no man should venture. And an independent woman learns that the secret to happiness is paying heads to her family’s wishes and giving up her own business. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: estranged sisters, a newly pregnant customer, and the wife of a man with early onset Alzheimer’s I hate (HATE!!!!) or "personally do not like books" where women die because of a pregnancy. Let alone for a pregnancy. Especially on purpose. Especially in books written by men. It’s just not my cup of tea.Why does one have to wait three years to marry someone, when that person didn't even try to fight for the relation. Why is a stunningly beautiful, feminine, loving, caring, intelligent, successful woman waiting for her ex who left without even communicating where they stand? Try to move her by force and she will curse you, as Fumiko finds out. This woman was the last person who let the coffee go cold, and now remains there always as a ghost. The regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past—as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveller must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. The second story, Husband and Wife, was much more promising, and it did end up making me cry. It was incredibly moving, and I will remember it for a long time into the future. At times, it was very lovely. My very favorite things are lovely things, and simple, wonderful magical realism is my favorite hard-to-find-done-well genre, and for a while it seemed like this could qualify as being both of those things.