BOOK REVIEW | Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In which I have at least one conversation with a bird.
Before The Coffee Gets Cold // / before-the-coffee-gets...
Tales From The Cafe // / before-the-coffee-gets...
✯ CHAPTERS ✯
0:00 INTRO
0:35 Summary
2:02 Setting
3:03 Plot
4:42 Characters
6:52 Writing
8:12 Themes
10:12 Final Thoughts
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✯ ✯ S T U F F ✯ ✯
C A M E R A // Canon EOS 200d
E D I T I N G // Adobe Premiere Pro
T H U M B N A I L S // Adobe Photoshop
R E A D I N G // Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
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✯ ✯ S O C I A L S ✯ ✯
I N S T A G R A M // / literal_jasmine
T W I T T E R // / literal_jasmine
G O O D R E A D S // / literal_jasmine
E M A I L // [e-mail]
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✯ ✯ S U P P O R T ✯ ✯
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P A T R E O N // / novelthoughts
K O - F I // ko-fi.com/novelthoughts
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[@CapturedInWords]

Greta review! Sounds very interesting, I'm hoping to get to this later in the year

[@LiterallyJasmine]

I hope you enjoy it too!

[@BlatantlyBookish]

What a lovely review Jasmine! I had no idea that the series originally started as a play. Now that you mention it, it makes so much sense! I ultimately decided that the writing style had to do with the Japanese translation. It was a strange juxtaposition as you said, but I think that incongruity was lessened slightly by listening to them on audiobook. I've found a few other pieces of Japanese literature to have similarly clipped, sparse sentences, so I'm unclear whether it is truly a stylistic choice or a product of the translation. Regardless, I didnt' think it ruined the reading experience. These are truly one of a kind.

[@LiterallyJasmine]

It's funny you should say that, because after reading The Housekeeper and The Professor in the same month I got more convinced that it was a stylistic choice than a Japanese translation thing! The Housekeeper was downright poetic! Either way they've got me more keen to read translated works in the future

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@LiterallyJasmine]

Have you read these books? What did you think of them? ☺