On Saturday, we took a trip to the library, because I really needed some reading material beyond pregnancy/childbirth/childcare books.  This is important, yes, but it’s just about all I’ve read in the last 9 months, and my brain was getting full.

I picked up Rant:  An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk and Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl.  I’ve read one other of Roald Dahl’s short story collections for adults, and I was very impressed.  I guess it’s not surprising that the mind that created such twisted children’s tales as The Witches (my all-time favorite) would be even weirder and funnier when not censoring himself for a juvenile audience.  I haven’t started that one yet, but I’m looking forward to it.  Rant is really good so far.  I really admire the way Chuck P. slowly unfolds a story and doesn’t pander.  His brain must be a very interesting place to live.

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Things one notices when spending hours and hours breastfeeding a baby:  this Boppy I have sports a Noah’s Ark theme.  On it I see a pair of rabbits, a pair of sheep, a pair of horses, a pair of chickens (lesbians, apparently, since neither is a rooster), a pair of something that might be armadillos, and…a zebra with a monkey on its back.  Shocking!