A review by librinania
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.0
To begin with, this book was bringing good ideas. There are four stories and all happens in the special cafe with their urban legend-legendary seat. which probably made this book wasn't simply normal fiction but fantasy as well, or so people called magical realism.
The first story already spilled behind the title. Then the next story, still have related with the regular but different people came and brought another point. Till it had four ideas.
I love the stories behind every person come to the cafe were explained not in excessive narrative. The lovers giving hope. Husband and wive giving angsty warm feeling, even made my eyes wet. The sisters in other hand, giving futuristic ambience with smile of fine things at the beginning but cracking ending. And mother and child, the very different kind of time travel compared to the rest story, I guess some part of this story even remains sceret.
Just a little disturb for me... okay, I don't know is it only me, because again this is subjective review, that despite the briliant idea i feel the writing or how the story was told wasn't really pleasing for me. I just confuse a lot in the flow, and the mood, the nuance every paragraph to another giving isn't so subtle, yet still bearable. I love the idea and the point every stories just it was a bit flat or up and down so shakily (if that's can conclude how i feel and think when i read this book).
Travelling back or forth to time might give a little hope, or assurance, or even to know whether there's a glimpse of sign changes if we could be brave to say what's supposed to say, do what's had willingly to do. And even without this thing exist, we should be brave to do.
I read this in one sitting. And teary a bit. Nice read to try.
The first story already spilled behind the title. Then the next story, still have related with the regular but different people came and brought another point. Till it had four ideas.
I love the stories behind every person come to the cafe were explained not in excessive narrative. The lovers giving hope. Husband and wive giving angsty warm feeling, even made my eyes wet. The sisters in other hand, giving futuristic ambience with smile of fine things at the beginning but cracking ending. And mother and child, the very different kind of time travel compared to the rest story, I guess some part of this story even remains sceret.
Just a little disturb for me... okay, I don't know is it only me, because again this is subjective review, that despite the briliant idea i feel the writing or how the story was told wasn't really pleasing for me. I just confuse a lot in the flow, and the mood, the nuance every paragraph to another giving isn't so subtle, yet still bearable. I love the idea and the point every stories just it was a bit flat or up and down so shakily (if that's can conclude how i feel and think when i read this book).
Travelling back or forth to time might give a little hope, or assurance, or even to know whether there's a glimpse of sign changes if we could be brave to say what's supposed to say, do what's had willingly to do. And even without this thing exist, we should be brave to do.
I read this in one sitting. And teary a bit. Nice read to try.