Before Your Memory Fades

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This was actually better than I expected considering that many people were saying that this was the weaker book out of this series. Many of the people that we meet share a very similar story as to why they wish to go into the past, to the point where they didn’t feel very distinct.

The other thing I didn't see coming was a fact that Yukari Tokita is happened to be the author of a One Hundred Questions book. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? This is the third book in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series and like it’s predecessors it is book comprising of four tales about time travel once drinking a particular coffee in a particular cafe - this book moves events to Hakodate but with some familiar characters . From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another heartfelt story of lost souls hoping to take advantage of the cafe's time-travelling offer. Lastly, time travel fiction is always so fascinating - the element of it here is by far my favourite.

Before Your Memory Fades caught me by surprise as it takes place in a different city and cafe, but when explained it absolutely made sense. In the latest book in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the action moves from the small, hidden café in Tokyo to a café in northern Japan with a beautiful view of the harbour. Light and delightful ways of writing despite how the author still having that same writing habit like before; to repetitively info dumping stuff he already mentioned in each story. Having lost my aunt, I saw the grief of losing a sister through my mother’s and her surviving sister’s eyes.

The novel Before the coffee gets cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize. Zastanawia mnie tylko działanie tego „przenoszenia w czasie” — czy tylko ja zauważyłam, że niby „nie można wpływać na przeszłość i przyszłość”, a jednocześnie pojawiające się postaci wpływają na przyszłość ludzi, z którymi się spotykają? This sublime book is responsible for filling my heart with a serenity that only the distinctive characters in 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' can. I would say that this series is a great starting point if you want to start reading Japanese literature. Among some familiar faces, readers will also be introduced to:The daughter who begrudges her deceased parents for leaving her orphanedThe comedian who aches for his beloved and their shared dreamsThe younger sister whose grief has become all-consumingThe young man who realizes his love for his childhood friend too late .

Even though the time travel premise is the same in every “chapter”, each story feels fresh and unique while still moving the overall storyline of the main characters forward. Poignant stories of missed conversations and lost opportunities are given the chance to be put to rights for different protagonists with different outcomes. It is a beautiful book, and an even more beautiful series, which I thoroughly enjoyed and I am sad I have to let it go, at least for now. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In simple yet elegant prose, with elements of fantasy and magical realism and an interesting cast of characters, the author touches upon themes of love, loss, grief and moving on.

Bit glimpse at the beginning on Kei transporting to the future to meet Miki in Café Funiculi Funicula; a narrative that was brought forward from the last story in Book 1 before Kei passed away.All 4 stories appeared to share a very similar heartrending nuance to me yet I love how each was so pleasantly written. Catch up on the rest of the series with Before the Coffee Gets Cold , Tales from the Cafe and Before We Say Goodbye .

I'm glad I met new people in here and hope to learn more about them in the next book, can't wait for yet another installment coming up! When that happens the person gifted with the most precious thing will be able to fight on a little more. I loved how he built his characters, so that each were distinctive, even just by how they spoke or how they were described. Tears may flow, as our time travellers once again find new vantage points on old beliefs to uncover life-affirming discoveries. I also absolutely loved every single character, unlike Tales from the Cafe, which was a little bit more difficult in terms of my liking towards a specific character.However, unlike the first two books of the series which were set in Café Funiculi Funicula in Tokyo, we meet Nagare and Kazu along with her seven-year-old daughter Sachi at Café Donna Donna in Hakodate.