Breakfast, books and violence

Usually I eat children's food for breakfast. I don't have much time for breakfast or better said, I don't take much time for breakfast because I don't want to wake up earlier than I do. At 5:45 am each morning. I am at work by 7 am. Which means that I am home by 3:30 pm. At my breakfast I usually read. A book, a newspaper, anything. When there is somebody eating breakfast at the same table, I never read. Although, such moments are very rare.Yesterday I was in our library again. After about three weeks. It seems that there has been no time for reading in my life lately. I borrowed many books this time. It is so when there is raining outside. What more could I asked for yesterday in the evening than a pile of books, sound of rain outside and my cozy chair in a warm but messy living room? I bought myself a book the other day, although I have only flipped through the pages this far. There was no time to do some proper reading.

On Sunday when I was sitting in a front yard of a cozy restaurant with my colleagues eating lunch, we were talking about the books. Sitting next to me was a boy of 12 years and a nursery teacher in her thirties. We were speaking about the books we like. E.g. Harry Potter. You know, there are lots of owls in the story and among ornithologists you can't avoid speaking about the birds, although it is just the book for children. That boy told us that he liked Harry Potter but The Lord of the Rings was much better. He loved the movie. Lots of violence. One of the guys told us that his child came home the other day from a birthday party of his friend and they had been watching the same movie there. Five years old kids! I went to see the first part of the trilogy with Mr B. After the movie he asked me if I can go and see the other two parts by myself because he had been scared to death watching the movie. I have never seen the other two parts.I was also very disappointed reading Parzival, a book usually read by pupils of Waldorf school. There is so much violence in the book! I didn't like it at all although the story might have a hidden and powerful meaning. One of the books I borrowed yesterday was from the youth department of the library. One of The Wind on Fire trilogy. There is lots of violence in these books and all are kind of sad. I just wonder how such stories affect the children who read them.

But... I have to admit that I liked Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Hobbit and The Wind of Fire...

P.s.: Sorry about the quality of the photos, I took them this morning when there was still dusk outside.
P.p.s.: Is it really 21 May already?!