Before Your Memory Fades

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Before Your Memory Fades

Before Your Memory Fades

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A special big thanks to Irina for recommending the first book in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, that has become a new favourite, extending the frontiers of time-travel and making us more human! The stories are heart warming and inspiring; they also make you think more about how to treasure your lovers, parents, siblings, the present you live in, and hope for future. personally, i think that’s a good thing, i don’t want a novel to give me the same experience every time and it just so happens that themes in the novel coincided with recent events in my life.

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. In this 3rd instalment, both Nagare and Kazu went to Café Donna Donna (originally owned by Nagare’s mom, Yukari) located in Hakodate to replace Yukari for a while as she had gone to America. A great pick if you want an easy to grasp, and relatable plot; one that will be giving you a reality check on life. I was a little perplexed by the move from the original Tokyo café though I felt that more was revealed about the process behind the time travel and the Tokita family’s involvement.

Perhaps it’s because I feel so connected to the people in the stories and I don’t want to say goodbye. These two quotes reaffirmed my thinking that our heart is the eyes of the soul, and if we truly want to know the person, we should never disregard this ability of another way to see. 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.

Besides those ones existing in Japan, I thought at first that such a cafe is there somewhere in America as well. 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. The four stories again make us reflect on life ,live and death and the joys and tragedies that effect all of us . The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to become unhappy.Overall, while I did enjoy this book, I didn't find it as emotionally hard-hitting or satisfying as the previous installment, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, which remains my favorite among the three books in the series.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan. I don’t fancy Reiji’s character that much but the last story of him and Nanako really gets my heart broken a bit. The story of Todoroki and Hayashida of the comedy duo PORON DORON was one of my favorites and I especially liked how it connected to one of the cafe workers.

And I really wanted to hear more about the ghost's story - I hope it comes in the fourth installment, which I've just found out has been released but not translated to english. That and the number of people introduced in the cafe (now with a much needed prompt list at the front) made me find it more difficult to focus on the time travel stories. Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change 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 .



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