Breakfast reading

Sweden has been hit by a heat wave, and I have difficulties doing anything. We are just not used to this kind of weather. I have lived in hot climates before, but obviously I forgot what it is like. Anyway, one should not complain. That is just an excuse to explain the low energy that I have for the moment. Can't do anything more than lying in the shade reading, which is, after all, not that bad. However, it generates fewer blog post, and I am now pushing myself to the limit to write a few!

I take my breakfast on the balcony a little bit later in the morning. Since I eat it alone, I enjoy some reading during breakfast. Either some magazines, or some suitable books. By suitable, I mean books that you can stop reading whenever you have finished with breakfast. I have recently been finishing a few of them, and I would like to share them with you (although they are in Swedish).

Short story books are one option of course, but what I really love is books that gives you half a page, or a couple of pages of information. For this purpose the three books I have been reading are perfect.  Two of them are by a well known Swedish historian, Dick Harrison. I have several of his books and he writes in an easygoing and interesting way. It is like reading a non-fiction book, and it is always exciting. He has a column in one of the Swedish papers where he answers historical questions. These Q & A has been put into two books under the names of 'Historian on duty'.

The other book I have quoted from recently, regarding my posts for Paris in July, and that is 365 days by Anders Bergman & Emelie Perland. They have collected diary entries from well-known and not so well-known diary keepers. It makes for interesting reading and a few notes to look further into their diaries.

For the time being I am going through magazines lefter here by my mother. I will look into my TBR shelves and see if I can find something more suitable for breakfast reading.  Of course I have time since I am not working anymore, and I just love sitting down for breakfast for an hour or so. It is such a treat after all these years of stressing through breakfast and preparing for school and work. What about you? Do you read during breakfast (if you are eating alone that is).