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I've been itching to draw criminal mastermind V.V. Morgenstern from the DFC's Donny Digits ('by Woodrow Phoenix, obviously'), whom I v.v. much suspect is based on Woodrow's fabulous partner, Bridget. I still haven't quite got the essence of Ms Morgenstern or Bridget, but here's my go at it. Happy birthday, Bridget! I just saw on the Forbidden Planet blog here that one of my favourite illustrators, François Schuiten, is going to design the new Brussels Railway Museum, planned to open in May 2010. That will please both Stuart and me to no end, as I'm fond of trains and adore Schuiten, and Stuart is almost a transport fanatic, and thinks trains and trams are far preferable to humans. Trams are really his thing, and he used to go round and round Moscow on the trams in the dead of winter, just because he liked being on trams. Although we once went on a steam locomotive on the Isle of Man and I've seldom seen him so excited. We went with friends who live in Brussels to the tram museum there a few years ago, around Christmas, and it was shut. But a nice elderly Flemish caretaker let us in and gave us his own tour around the shadowy depot, with its amazing world of dust, leather, mechanical oddities and fading signs. And a book list for a meme from nice_cup_of_tea following the BBC's The Big Read: Instructions Copy into a new note Put an X next to the ones you've read. Include the number you have read in the title and post to your journal. (I always break the rules on these things.) 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien X 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, X 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman, X 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, X 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling, X 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, X 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne, X 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, X 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis, X 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, X 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller X 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë X 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, X 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger X 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, X 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, X 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres, X 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, X 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell X 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling, X 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling, X 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling, X 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, X 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot X 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving, X 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck X 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, X 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson X 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez X 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens X 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, X 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson X 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen X 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen, X 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery, X 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams X 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald, X 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh X 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell, X 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens X 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, X 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck, X 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, X 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl X 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell X 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, X 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, X 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman X 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden, X 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens X 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton, 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding, X 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind, 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl X 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding, X 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt X 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson X 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl X 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith, X 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy X 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley X 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel X 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett, 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho X 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer, 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez X 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie X Book score: 63 (Or 62, really, since I haven't quite yet finished A Tale of Two Cities.) Kind of handy, as it reminds me of a lot of books I keep meaning to read. I bet Salman Rushdie's thrilled to bits for being listed just after Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries.