If you didn’t know, October is Filipino-American Heritage Month. As a Filipino-American myself, I always want to amplify the voices of other Filipino authors. Last year, I had posted a spotlight on Janella Angeles’ debut novel, Where Dreams Descend, and it just so happens that the sequel, When Night Breaks, was released earlier this month. I felt compelled to spotlight Janella’s fabulous work again, so I thought I’d list 5 reasons why you should read the Kingdom of Cards series!
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Hi everyone! It’s that time again! Time for another teatimereads announcement. We’re so excited to announce that our November book will be BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. We can’t wait to read this book with you. We hope you’re as excited as we are!
Here is the full summary for Before the Coffee Gets Cold:
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?
Links for Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Goodreads | TheStoryGraph | Bookshop | IndieBound
Content Warnings for Before the Coffee Gets Cold: hospitalization, injury, pregnancy, pregnancy complications, death of a parent. health issues, alzheimer’s, grief, mentions of depression, mentions of anxiety, breakup
We hope that the rest of your October is wonderful and we can’t wait to read and discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold with you all in November!
Emergency Contact meets Moxie in this cheeky and searing novel that unpacks just how complicated new love can get…when you fall for your enemy.
Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. That is, until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len—who is tall, handsome, and male—just seems more like a leader.
When Eliza’s frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who believe she’s a gender equality champion and others who think she’s simply crying misogyny.
Amid this growing tension, the school asks Eliza and Len to work side by side to demonstrate civility. But as they get to know one another, Eliza feels increasingly trapped by a horrifying realization—she just might be falling for the face of the patriarchy himself.
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When I started working on this post, Cossette asked me, “How did you get into reading?” and when I think about it, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t reading. Literature was such a huge part of my childhood that in my mind, the two are intertwined. As a kid, I would constantly beg my mom to take me to the library or a bookstore whenever we had the time, and once she got me in there I never wanted to leave.
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New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.
Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.
That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all.
Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it’s too late.
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Wow. I literally cannot believe that it’s the end of September. Time really is a construct…but! With the end of September comes the end of the Theatreathon, and I thought that since I did a TBR post, it only makes sense that I did a wrap up post!
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Hi, hello lovely friends! As the weather goes warmer or colder depending on where you’re at in the world, another month has come to an end. This month was an exciting one for us, as it marked our first year anniversary of blogging (yay!) and our first month of being entirely self hosted (double yay!). It was also a very exciting reading month for us, as all three of us here at teatimelit were participating in the theatreaton! We hope you had a lovely month, and keep reading to see what we read!
This month Caitlyn read 35 books, Cossette read 28 books, and Mary read 7 books.
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The highly anticipated, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the addictive A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you’ll never think the same of good girls again.
Pip’s good girl days are long behind her. After solving two murder cases and garnering internet fame from her crime podcast, she’s seen a lot.
But she’s still blindsided when it starts to feel like someone is watching her. It’s small things at first. A USB stick with footage recording her and the same anonymous source always asking her: who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? It could be a harmless fan, but her gut is telling her danger is lurking.
When Pip starts to find connections between her possible stalker and a local serial killer, Pip knows that there is only one choice: find the person threatening her town including herself–or be as good as dead. Because maybe someone has been watching her all along…
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Every once in a while, you’ll read a book that is so beautifully descriptive that you can’t help but think “this needs to be turned into a film or tv series!” – well, I’ve read quite a few this year and thought, why not make a blog post about it!
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Cossette and I are huge fans of Little Women — she’s the Amy to my Jo, and since we’ve both been on a Little Women kick recently (but when are we not), we decided to team up once again to work on a Little Women comparison post! There are mild spoilers for Little Women below, so please proceed with caution!
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