I've just finished Michiko Aoyama's "What You Are Looking for Is in the Library" and quite enjoyed its series of vignettes about various people's insights following their fateful visits to the local library. Definitely a cozy read. Though now that I've seen the title of the French translation (La bibliothèque des rêves secrets) I cannot help but wonder what the original Japanese title was.

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@jendefer @bookstodon I also thought it was very sweet.

@kimlockhartga @jendefer @bookstodon And me! Have you tried Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, about a cafe where you can time travel for the length of time it takes for a coffee to grow cold?

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@HollieK72 @jendefer @bookstodon I like the premise of the book, sort of. But, going to the past only long enough for your coffee to get cold seems not long enough, and nothing you do there is allowed to influence the present, which snuffs the one thing I love about time travel books, which is how the present changes based on what you did in the past.

Some of my friends loved it, and others did not.

@kimlockhartga @jendefer @bookstodon It is a very short period of time, and basically gives the time traveller the chance to have one conversation that they otherwise would not have had. Nothing can change physically, but emotionally is another matter.
@HollieK72 @kimlockhartga I have not read that one yet, though you're the second person who's mentioned it to me. The other person described it as a bit sad, or perhaps melancholy.