After stretching his back, he pulled in his chin and started walking towards the toilet with a very upright posture. I was distracted by several other reads before I finihsed this but it never occured to me not to finish it. Nariman moves on to deal with a wide variety of important subjects, such as the sanctity of the Indian Constitution and attempts to tamper with it; crucial cases that have made a decisive impact on the nation, especially on the interpretation of the law; the relationship between the political class and the judiciary; and the cancer of corruption and how to combat this menace. With his signature heart-warming characters and immersive storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Toshikazu Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

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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. Still in love with Kazu’s personality and what a twist to know that she has a daughter now who inherited her magical touch of serving the cup of coffee.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.

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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. 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. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. 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. 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.Would highly suggest to go for the previous books from the series first before you delve into this— you surely need to know how it was all started aighttt! Ogni storia la sentirete vicina a voi, come se ciò che viene descritto vi fosse capitato, per questo è impossibile non farsi coinvolgere emotivamente. We meet some characters we already know, Nagare and Kazu, along with Kazu's seven year old daughter Sachi. 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? The characters are still really loveable, each part is paced really well, creating an attachment to each person going back through time, whilst still not feeling slow at all.