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3.5
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
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Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees...
Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else's life.
Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters and reverberate far beyond your own circle and ultimately make a difference in the world.
Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that each open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe. What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.
Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else's life.
Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters and reverberate far beyond your own circle and ultimately make a difference in the world.
Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that each open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe. What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.
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3.5
“I think the connects between the stories where a little too much on the readers face.
The three last ones are the ones that make the book worth reading in my opinion.
Not much to say to be honest.”
“I loved these cozy stories & the audiobook was so calming!
So many of these characters just made me smile :) but I really enjoyed the ideas on marriage from both the newlywed couple & the couple who had been married 50 years 💕”
“Just what I needed to read and spend time with today. Aoyama just has a way of creating characters and small connections showing how small this vast world is.”
“'I’m sure countless rays of light never would have shone without meeting the Maestro.' (Ch 10)
Contemporary / Literary Fiction
Light-hearted story of interconnected, colorful — everyday ordinary lives — woven together through an inconspicuous cafe tucked behind cherry blossom trees and the more subtle yet profound mysterious owner, Maestro.
"‘Just being in a place you like can sometimes give you strength.’" (Ch 1)
Small delights, change and insecurities, self-reflection/self-discovery, regrets, friendships, and love. All made individually extraordinary by the grace, the touch, the care, or the casual connection of another person. Moments, whether fleeting or over time, that end up molding a life and/or their path and consequently the lives of others.
'....to a greater or lesser extent, maybe we all play that role for someone. We’re all intertwined in each other’s lives without even knowing it.' (Ch 10)
The last chapter is my favorite! 🤗🥰 So heart-warming and full of hope.
eARC courtesy of NetGalley | HTP Books / Hanover Square Press / HarperCollins Publishers”
About Michiko Aoyama
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library was short-listed for the Japan Booksellers’ Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. Michiko Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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