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5.0

What a nice little book! The best way to describe it would be armchair travel with a caffeine drip.

"Viennese coffeehouses fueled intellectual life. “The city of Vienna is filled with coffee houses,” wrote a visitor early in the 1700s, “where the novelists or those who busy themselves with newspapers delight to meet.” And in England, before tea took over, coffeehouses were called “penny universities” because for that price one could purchase a cup of cof- fee and sit for hours listening to extraordinary conversations."

Putting together coffee and literature, the 31-pages long book has caffeinated literature and literary coffee: history of coffee, coffee drinking habits of writers, role of coffee in socialisation, and the worst historic exclusion of women from both literary and coffee-drinking circles.

Bonus: a cool comic called 'Tips & Tricks on Taking Photos of Coffee & Books" :D
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