Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Antes que o café arrefeça by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

137 reviews

erisouls's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Loved this book but the blurb on the front is misleading. The whole shtick is that you can’t change anything by sitting in the chair. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Dementia

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abortion, Abandonment, and Fire/Fire injury

httponyo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A heart wrenching but beautiful book about the relationships between people. I would rate it higher but the age difference ( 17 to 20 ) between the couple owning the cafe when they started dating makes me uncomfortable so take that into consideration. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent and Adult/minor relationship

melissalaura's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This is a beautiful read that had me hypnotized from the beginning.  Each of the four stories pulled at my heart strings, particularly the last one where I ugly cried to the end!  I love the underlying message of accepting the past and valuing relationships, it really is relatable.  I usually enjoy a happy ending but it somehow wouldn't have been appropriate, the end was perfectly emotional.  This book is definitely up there as one of my favourite books of all time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Minor: Miscarriage

bekiethebanished's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Abortion

grace_cr1's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Abortion, Chronic illness, Death, and Car accident

readwthsam's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

joaura's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

emilyelysian's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Car accident, Death, and Dementia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

jacs63's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

What an extraordinary book! 
This book is divided up into 4 parts. There are no chapters. 
It's written by a Japanese writer who I had not heard of before. It was originally a play but was later turned into a book. It may be being made into television series. 

It's an odd read but worth the effort.
I started reading this book, but gave up half way through the first Part. The story didn't gell with me and it was meandering and getting nowhere. 

I put it down, but picked it up again a while later and decided to try and stick with it this time. 
And I am glad I did. 

Part one does drag a bit and didn't affect me much. It made me feel happy at the end though. 

Part three has a good outcome. 

Parts two and four made me ugly cry. So beautifully written. For different reasons, they affected me greatly. 

The first part maybe drags as the author needs to explain the story to the reader? 
The rules suddenly changing in Part four was a bit annoying, but I get it. It just felt clumsy. 

It's not a perfect book and it has it's faults, but it's a stunning, original book. 
It will stay with me for a while I think. 
I'm glad I finished it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy

_doze_'s review against another edition

I expected this books to have a little more oomph than it truly did. The time travel aspect is why I expected it, but in reality the motivations of the characters didn't grab me. It is a love story for all the characters in some sense (family love, romantic love, friendship love) but the stakes were not high enough for me to feel it was worth me finishing to find out its conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Terminal illness