In a Tokyo café, four visitors use time travel to confront past relationships, but they must finish before their coffee gets cold. Told with gentle humour and emotional clarity, these stories invite readers to reflect on love, regret, and the small, beautiful moments that shape our lives.
The writer of the book "Before The Coffee Gets Cold", fifty-five-year-old Toshikazu Kawaguchi, has turned the success of his first book into an industry by also publishing "Before Your Memory Fades", "Before We Say Goodbye", "Before We Forget Kindness", and "Before I Knew I Loved You".
I found "Before The Coffee Gets Cold" in my favourite op-shop. Before I pay full retail price for the others, I'll wait for them to turn up there as well. In the meantime, I have taken this now famous quote from this first book and pinned it above my writing desk inside "Melbourne" ...
... because "Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again. Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words. So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled."
Let's drink the coffee before it gets cold. It's International Roast for me.
