Ep 685 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A prime example of the "healing fiction" genre, Before The Coffee Gets Cold has uncharacteristically low stakes for a time travel novel: no future of humanity to save, no butterfly effects, no risk of destroying the present by altering the past. It's more concerned with simpler questions: if you had just a little more information about things that happened in the past, how much would it change the things you do in the present?

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.6	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:11.2	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.2	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:42.8	Music These are books you should have read by now. Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue.
0:46.4	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:47.3	My name is Craig.
0:49.0	My name is Andrew.
0:52.8	And I am popping the top on this vacuum-sealed coffee mug.
1:00.2	I am pouring coffee into a diner mug from our favorite chicken place, chicken or the egg.
1:02.4	It's 1041 p. I don't plan to drink it.
1:04.0	It's just for the bit.
1:06.8	What book did you read for this episode of our show where each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it, Andrew?
1:13.8	I read Before the Coffee Gets Cold from the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
1:23.6	Okay. So in our Discord, I asked, Patreon.com slash Overdue Pod, sign up, join our cool Discord
1:29.7	community.
1:30.6	I asked folks if they had takes on the book.
1:32.7	You're going to talk about some of those a little bit later.
1:35.8	It's my understanding that this is some sort of magic book that revolves around what you
1:43.2	can accomplish while a cup of coffee is warm.
1:46.8	Yeah, sort of, kind of, kind of.
1:49.3	So I'm going to take a sip of this coffee and drink no more of it.
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