Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawagucki
I started reading this book 2 months ago, while travelling. For some reason, if I don't finish a book before my journey ends, I always forget about it when I reach my destination. I only had the last chapter left, and now 2 months later I finally finished it. I found this book to be very charming and sweet. The magical realism is perfect. Mwah. Just the perfect amount. The premise is simple. You have a cafe. In that cafe exists the posbility of travelling into the past, but only under very specific conditions which almost makes the whole experience "worthless". Or does it? The only thing I'm not particularly fond of was the last story, centered around a woman determined to give birth even though she knows she's going to die 100%. Lately I've been bumping into this "she (sometimes he too) was born with a fragile constitution and a strong will" trope so I'm a bit tired of it. Interestingly enough, I have never met somebody like this in real life...