Prologue
I did it again. It was around the
end of the school year in May. I saw one of my students fully-immersed in the
reading of a book during the break and asked: "What is it that you are so
eagerly reading?”
Her answer was a big smile and
“So beautiful, prof.! You must read it. “ And then she showed me the book cover
with the title.
“In English?”
“Yes, it is not out in Italian
yet”
“A romance?” I suspected it from
the cover and the title.
Her answer came after a while: “ Not exactly …
not only … it’s pretty special”
That was enough to made me curious. I googled it,
saw there was a movie coming soon starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, read
the synopsis and … promised myself I was definitely not going to read it! Not
another cheesy romance my students loved which was going to make me cry!
But then, while on holiday in
Scotland, I happened to enter a bookshop with books half-price all
over and I came out with not only “Me Before You” but its sequel too!
I must be crazy, you say? Must be, since I not only bought those books, I even read them. Well, worse even: I not only read them but
also liked them.
Why did I start this post with "I did it
again"? It ‘s not the first time I read books or watch movies recommended by my
students and find them not so bad. Did I say cheesy, somewhere above? Well, it wasn't. It isn't. Aren’t I a lucky teacher? ;-)