I love reading books! And now that it’s cold outside and snowy it’s wonderful to get into bed early with a good book. Don’t you agree?? I usually read books in my own language, Dutch. But once in a while I do read them in Italian. A book, written by an Italian writer, that absolutely deserves a post is La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi (translated into English: The Solitude of Prime Numbers or in Dutch: De Eenzaamheid van de Priemgetallen).
This young author Paolo Giordano (1982) living in Piemonte close to Torino was able to write a book that has been translated in 30 languages, won the most prestigious literary award of Italy Il premio Strega and was most sold in Italy in 2008, the year the book came out. And that for his first novel!
This book tells a story about Alice and Mattia and their remarkable friendship. Mattia has a twin sister Michela who is mentally retarded. When both are invited to a birthday party of a friend, he’s so ashamed of her that he leaves her behind in the park telling her to stay there. He will pick her up later. When he comes back she disappeared and was never found again. When Alice is only 7 years old her father forces her to take ski lessons. One day she falls and she remains paralyzed on one leg. In highschool Alice and Mattia meet and that’s the start of their remarkable friendship. More than this I’m not going to tell you. You just should read it for yourself. It is worth every page!
Have fun reading and oh….in 2010 the film based on this novel came out: didn’t like it at all!!
I love books too!! And I need to take some time and read more again. Thank you for the reminder
Hahaha, it’s true I also need to remind myself sometimes, but once I start again, I find myself in another world
Good reading tip, thank you
I’d like to read this too! Thanks for giving a little bit of the background…
You’re welcome. Once you’ve read it please let me know if you liked it ok? Nice evening Meg!
Sounds like a very intriguing book. I’m usually disappointed with a movie after I loved the book…they usually change or leave so much out.
Totaly agree with you. Happened again this time..at least for me!
I completely agree with you, snuggling up in bed with a good book on a cold day is a wonderful treat! This one sounds intriguing.
Ciao lorna! Oh, looking forward to tonight when I can snuggle up again
If you didn’t read it already, go to the book store, take this one from the shelf, pay and run home to start 
That’s quite a recommendation!
Enjoy your snuggling tonight.
LOL, you too
Sorry just realized that you did not like the movie. As I said, I thought it was not bad.
HAHAHA, no unfortuantely I didn’t like the film at all
I had high hopes, but I found the film almost ennoying while I didn’t had that feeling at all while reading the book. That was indeed a real page-turner like you said! Well…opinions… 
I read the book three years ago. I agree: it is a great book, a true page-turner.
The book was made into a movie. I’m usually skeptical about watching movies based on books I have read because 99.9% of the time the book is better than the movie but this one was not bad at all. Maybe because Alice is played by Alba Rohrwacher who is one of the best young Italian actresses. I think it’s worth a shot
I love books, too! A kindred spirit…