Before Your Memory Fades (Original) | 
And here I thought I posted this like a week ago, but apparently I did not. Here is my read list for #BookSpinBingo for June.
pickThere is another coffee shop for aspiring time travellers, this one in Hakodate rather than Tokyo, but the rules are the same. The book follows the same format of four interlinked stories. The first time I read it, following a gap after the first two, I found the repetition of the format rather forced, but this time reading the books together it felt effortless and charming.
#ReadYourKindle The numbers have been drawn. Three of these would start a new series and the tagged is the 3rd in a series so will start with that. I have about half the books from the #LitsyTOB list to read this month so may only get to one or two of these.
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so-soThis sits somewhere between a pick and a so-so for me. Because while I love this series and enjoy the short stories and how they all manage to overlap in ways, I found myself getting a bit bored with the second half of this installment. I had to shelf it for a couple of weeks and read something else in the interim. I then came back to it this morning, but even then it felt like a bit of a struggle at times. All in all, glad I read it though.
“It was like water off a duck's back, or pee off a frog's face!“
Say what?! LoL I can honestly say in all my life I've never heard the second part of that expression. 😂
Poor frog! 😝🐸
Another sentiment that hits home for me right now. #encouragement #nevergiveup #gonebutnotforgotten #lovethis
pickThis is such a wistful, contemplative, yet ultimately heartwarming book, just like the others in the series. It always takes me a few minutes to sort out the characters but that never lasts long.
Book 5 for #14books14weeks2023
"Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has the energy. But sometimes when the energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater the anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy. That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future."
Happy World Book Day!
pickI love this concept of time travel to the past and future which cannot alter present events, but has healing powers that can change feelings and the perspective on the present.
I enjoyed the third installment and am now looking forward to read the fourth.
pickSad and emotional. Loss, grief and moving on - are dominant themes. Another wonderful addition to the series.
Just finished this audiobook! There were many sad stories, but I liked it a lot! It‘s the 3rd book in the Before the coffee gets cold series, which is about a cafe where you can travel to the past or the future, but only while you remain seated in 1 chair and only until your coffee gets cold. You can also not change anything in the past. All 3 books show random people traveling in the past/future and deal with their stories. 4/5🌟 recommended!
pickOh this series! I have enjoyed all three so very much. There is so much heart and emotion between these pages. Yes, I needed kleenex. These stories not only touched my emotions but made me think. If you could go back in time would you? Knowing yoh can't change the past would you still make the journey? 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read for me #japaneseauthors #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
pick#StoryGraph: fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional lighthearted eastern translated-works time-travel
224 pages • first pub 2018
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The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.
pickI loved this 3rd installment of the series, Before The Coffee gets Cold. It was slow going for me in places, and the author repeats a lot of things you already know, but maybe he‘s worried about fading memories? Lol Anyway, more vignettes, but a new setting….Hakodate, not Tokyo. It kind of makes you want to read the first book again. I don‘t remember Yukari being mentioned, is anyone reading the first or second book who can inform me?
pickOooo I do like this series!! I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the first two, but story 2 here made me tear up so it's safe to say I still liked it😂
pickI just love falling into the rhythm of this series. Even though the book is short, I might as well double the page count. The author does a great job of threading a consistent theme (if the world ends tomorrow questions) across 4 distinct stories, seamlessly giving supporting characters in one story a staring role in the next that when I reach the end I‘m compelled to begin again.
Next up!! I adore the first 2 in these series so I bought this one immediately when I saw it in Foyles in December! Finally reading😍 #JumpStart2023
pickJust finished and I loved it. I loved the whole series, and how it read like a continuation of each other (you really have to read the other two first). Four more stories of people going through time with the help of a special cafe, this one being the sister cafe of the one in Tokyo. We meet Sachi, the newest of the girls to pour the coffee at seven. I loved her, and the new characters, plus the nods to the Tokyo cafe and characters I met there
pickThird book in the series 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold'. There's going to be a 4th one even, but it's not yet translated.
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#beforethecoffeegetscold #magicalrealism #timetravel #japanese
I fell in love with these stories with Before the Coffee Gets Cold. I was so excited when I bought book two, but I wanted more. The characters are so amazing and multifaceted, especially considering that some don't get a lot of time in the book. Imagine my excitement when I saw a third book! 12 days and counting!!!!
so-soThere is another coffee shop for aspiring time travellers, this one in Hakodate rather than Tokyo, but the rules are the same. The book follows the same format of four interlinked stories but it is starting to feel a little forced and lacking the freshness and interest the first two books had.
Apparently the one in Tokyo is not the only cafe for aspiring time travellers. Here I am in a local cafe. I wonder where I should be sitting.
pickHeartbreaking but also heartwarming. These books will always have a place with me, each one has 4 stories following 4 different people going to the cafe to travel in time and honestly I've cried at every story.
