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Do I need help?

Guys I just came from the bookstore and I bought new books but I still have quite some on my tbr at home and I kind off feel guilty but also not because I love books but sometimes I just keep on buying books aaah anyone has this feeling too when getting new books?

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

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Problematic Summer Romance

Ali Hazelwood

What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists. When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.

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Fiction Books

I have a hard time reading Fiction books that are just fiction. The books have to have some sort of fantasy/supernatural element (even if it's just slight) or a mystery/thriller. For me, books have to feel like an escape. Something out of my norm. I love magical realism because I love that it plays on "hidden magic/forces/etc." within our world. But books that are just fiction don't hook me for some reason. Even the romance books I've read have some weird twist to them (Fan Service and Do Your Worst for example). And SO many fiction books are like the top rated and on every book club and bestseller lists. But it just doesn't separate me enough from real life lol Anyone relate? I feel bad I don't give regular fiction books a chance as often, but the once I have read just don't do it for me. I used to read a lot of regular fiction books as a teen. But in my adult life, I crave escapism. I feel like I'm missing out on any REALLY good fiction books but ahhh it feels like a chore. If you have any fiction books that are so good you're like "I will die on this hill" on how amazing it is, please let me know haha maybe i can change my mind.

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Where y'all from?

Looking to have new friend in here, so would like to know where are everyone from? Pls i can't be the only Egyptian here. :(

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Thoughts from 32% (page 72)

Since this is a Dutch book idk how many of you on here are dutch but I'm reading this and let's just say: a lot of puzzle pieces are falling in its place. I'm getting my autism diagnosis soon and this book is helping me realize a lot of things!

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Finished it!

This was a very cute book, slightly predictable but oh well who cares I liked the bookstore environments and the phone messages in between. I wanted a fun light read because I wasn't feeling all too great and this book def. was just perfect for that!

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