9) Completely Unexpected Tales, by Roald Dahl

This volume combines the short story collections Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected - I must have read the latter some time, but a lot of the stories in the former were new to me, eg the one with the disembodied brain which I think I would certainly have remembered. They are all real masterpieces, and actually reading them all at one go is probably not the best way to enjoy them - they are best piece by piece.

(NB - keeping tabs on this in my reading from now on - none of these stories passes the Bechdel test. Most have male narrators or viewpoint characters; the closest approach to a pass is "The Umbrella Man", where the twelve-year-old narrator and her mother do discuss the eponymous umbrella but mostly discuss the eponymous man.)

22) George's Marvelous Medicine, by Roald Dahl

I've been feeling very under the weather today (which explains how come I have been reading so many books); F, dutiful son that he is, sent me a "get well" email from the Roald Dahl website and pressed the book itself into my fevered hand. Well, I do hope that the medication I've been taking doesn't have the same effect on me that it does on George's grandmother!

Top UnSuggestion for this book: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Well, I've spent the morning happily putting all 400 of our children's books onto my LibraryThing catalogue. (Which takes my total book tally to 2869; wonder when I will break 3000?)

I'm sorry to go on about the UnSuggestions, but some of them for classic children's books are too good not to share:

Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr Seuss - Unsuggestion: Olympos, by Dan Simmons (at least until the system realises that I own both).
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr Seuss - UnSuggestion: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, by Noam Chomsky
Dr Seuss's ABC and Fox in Socks, by Dr Seuss - UnSuggestion (1) (2): The Complete Stories, by Franz Kafka
Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You?, by Dr Seuss - UnSuggestion: No Logo, by Naomi Klein

When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne - UnSuggestion: Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan (again, this will change once the system realises I own both)
Now We Are Six, by A.A. Milne - UnSuggestion: Learning Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz

Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren - UnSuggestion: The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins
Pippi in the South Seas, by Astrid Lindgren - UnSuggestion: The Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl - UnSuggestion: A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin (though again, I have both)
The Tale of Two Bad Mice, by Beatrix Potter - UnSuggestion: A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin (as before, I have both)

Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit - UnSuggestion: Being and Nothingness (L'être et le néant), by Jean-Paul Sartre

and this last one is rather poetic, though, alas, it too will probably vanish once the system realises I have both:

Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting - UnSuggestion: Getting Things Done, by David Allen.

Has anyone been to the Roald Dahl museum in Great Missenden or the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Aylesbury? Suitable to bring F to next summer (when he will be eight)?