BOOK REVIEW: BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD SERIES

If you’ve ever cried over something and said “I’m fine” while clearly not feeling fine, this is the series for you.

It’s a collection of the stories of people visiting a small cafe where you can time travel – but only under very specific rules, like making sure you finish your coffee before it gets cold. You can’t change the past, but you can see someone one last time, say the thing you never said, or find peace from your past chaos.

The series is not for everyone but it reminded be that the impact of each book we read changes depending on where we are in life. I read the first two books early this year. I was sad, I cried, blah blah. But what happened recently irl connected me better with the characters. Some stories hurt more. Some healed something I didn’t know was bleeding. Grief, regret, love – all brewed into one warm, quiet heartbreaking cup.

Each cup takes you back not to change what happened, but to make peace with it. And sometimes, that’s more than enough.

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6 CAFES IN THE METRO FOR WHEN YOU NEED TO WORK REMOTELY

This has been one of the many projects I really wanted to start before the pandemic, but unfortunately, cafe hopping doesn’t really make sense when you’re all in a lockdown so… The community quarantine has been a big challenge to businesses and most of them permanently closed eventually because profit went down and they couldn’t support the business anymore. While some took the risk on going straight online, content creators grew their business on the other hand, and thankfully most online businesses grew as well. Except me, of course.

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