#beforethecoffeegetscold

[robyn-weightman]

Happy Monday

[peachesofshirahoshi]

First of all, I am not an expert. I set up this blog because I want to get back to my old ways --- as what my 'about me' says. I had a reading slump for years and my habit is becoming toxic (gaming, sleep, watching kdrama) and I feel like I'm getting dumber.

This contains spoilers -- so beware. Without further ado, here we go.

To be honest, I don't know what this story is all about. All I know is that this book is popular and is the first book my friends Sharizze and Vanessa and I agreed to read. After many months, today, I officially finished it.

I gave it a chance and forced myself to continue reading. I thought that the book only revolves around one protagonist. The story is simple and didn't appeal to me --until I kept reading.

The moral lesson is really cliche -- you can no longer change what has happened before but your attitude now will determine your future. As many say, those simple things that we oftentimes shrug off are oftentimes the most important ones. The story is about the cafe patrons -- even the employees and they all have different situations where all they wanted was to go back to the past -- even the future to appease themselves. Their individual stories are heartwarming... and most of them made me tear a bit because it is both sad and joyful. I really loved this and it made me want to read books just like this one in the future.

It was well written. If you don't have a very strong English vocabulary, it's an easy read. I didn't even care to check the dictionary as most of the words used are understandable. I love how the characters were built up so you will empathize with them as if you are also there.

Personally, this reminded me that no matter how hard I try, nothing in the past will change. To not linger so much on our past mistakes because those mistakes make us who we are. All of them that came back to the past, and future -- they had a change of heart which greatly impacted their future. In real life, time travel might not be a thing but this made me realize that I should focus on the now in the hopes of having the future I wanted -- no matter how uncertain it is.

My favorite part? It's hard actually. I love all of them. They all played crucial roles in the story.

8/10.

[robyn-weightman]

Do you love finding signed editions or do you prefer unsigned books?

[nona-laras]

Before the coffee gets cold

I met my younger self for coffee.

We both showed up 30 minutes early, as usual.

She held the door for me, wearing the old blue cardigan I still stubbornly keep in Jakarta weather. The city that she once swore she would never live in.

She ordered an iced chocolate. "Sorry I could not drink coffee, i get dizzy and palpitation from caffeine." She smiled apologizingly.

I ordered an iced latte. No sugar. Just like my daily orders for the past three years.

She told me about the series of questionable men she'd been dating. How each of them just left different scars on her. I told her that later in life she'll learn that there's a kind of love that doesn't clip her wings down. A kind of love that goes to the battle with her, instead of against her.

She anxiously told me all of her worries. All the what-ifs. The A-Z back up plans plotted in algorithm style. I smiled, knowing that as much as sailing an uncharted sea was never her forte, she's going to take the leap of faith and learn to fly as she falls.

She asked, "Will things get better?"

I hugged her. "Like flowers blooming through the concrete, you've always been, and always will be, a survivor."

She looked puzzled and confused. I lingered a little longer than her, wishing that I could thank her enough in a way that truly matches all the growing pain she'll go through.

I hope one day we could meet again for coffee.

[aeneiz]

even if you return to the past, reveal your feelings, it won’t change the present. some rule saying, don’t go meddling in anything that is going to change the present.

[ktienh]

Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi -a review

Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi -a review

Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 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.In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee…

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[choaticncurly]

'The time you can spend in the past will begin from the time the cup is filled, and it must end before the coffee gets cold...'

[artofdamz]

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