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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Time Traveling Without Changing the Present – A Coffee Shop That Hurts, but Heals Us There is a small, timeless coffee shop in a basement on a narrow side street: it has no windows, no AC, and none of the clocks on the walls show the correct time. It is not a particularly popular establishment,…
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Convenience Store Woman: The Freedom of the Rulebook
Is Sayaka Murata’s heroine the antidote for societal expectations? First published in English in 2018, Convenience Store Woman has become a world-famous novel by author Sayaka Murata. Its main character, Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working as a convenience store for 18 years now, part-time, living alone and perfectly content with…
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Lisa Unger: The Red Hunter
I came across this book by total accident: it was left on the community bookshelf in the office building where I work, so the typical case of book cover attraction worked on me this time. It took just a few seconds on my way home to google Lisa Unger, American novelist, specializing in psychological thrillers,…
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Beyond The Happy Ever After
How Emily Henry Sneaked onto My Non-Romance Reading List Emily Henry’s work has been a surprise to me. For the record, romance novels are not my genre, but I have to confess that both ‘Beach Read’ (Berkley Books, 2020) and ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ (Berkley Books, 2021) gave me positive reading experiences. What got…
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