hey!
the boston public library take over appears to have been a sucess...
i would post pictures of what i've done in the last... long amount of time, but i have haven't done anything library related and cool, like invading the BPL.
anyway over the weekend my orchestra performed in a christmas service at my school. was really cool, but very tiring. we are perfomring again tomorrow in boston (i'm excited!!) ... and then i get to got home.

well
i shall see you sometime over break!

~Eleanor

Wes could get very used to this Controller of Destiny stuff....watch out all you peons! 

Somehow, the role if Saints just didn't seem quite right to us.... 

Ellen FINALLY got the Throne of Power. Bow down to She Who is Omnipotent! 

Foresiding is a book illustrating technique that wow-ed us all. 

We find out what it feels like to be a Hebrew prophet in the John Singer Sargent mural paintings... 

Leslie tries out the Chair of Power in Bernie's office. 

The rare collections "keeper" let us hold George Washington's Medal of Honor - the first one ever presented by the United States of America! 

On December 8th, he invited us on a private tour of the BPL as his guests! 

Bernie Margolis, president of the Boston Public Library was our guest during Teen Read Week in October. 

yay for invading the boston public library!
i wish i could have gone :( invading libraries os fun!!
i'm in the processing of convincing my mom to let me go to the LOTR film fest. i don't know if this is possible though, because i have someone coming to stay with me the next day, so as of now, i don't know if it would work, mostly because it involves alot of driving for my parents. but i am coming to a bookgroup meeting, make no mistake! (**evil laughter!**)
i had better get reading so i have something valuable to say when i do show up! :)

see ya (rather soon, actually!)
~Eleanor

Hi everybody,
Today is the magical day we get to invade the office of the president of the Boston Public Library.
Yeay! Bernie Margolis is actually a really good sport. He is planning to take us on a tour of the mural rooms, which, by reputation, are fabulous - very ornate and mythological - which we all love.....
Anyway, many of us are looking forward to the awesome LOTR marathon on Wed. of Christmas vacation. Hope you can make it, Eleanor..! Appropriate prizes will be awarded to stellar costume design. This event is not limited to teens, by-the-way, any and all LOTR fans are welcome. IT will start at noon and run until we are done. Whew!
I'll try to post photos from our BPL take-over.
Ellen

Hey!!
how is life?

i have been trying in vain to think of a thought provoking question to post on the blog...
i have a passage from a book i may post, if i ever remember to do it when i am near the book.

i am pretty sure that i will be able to visit for either a wednesday meeting, the LOTR film fest, or both. I am looking forward to visiting!! :)

hopefully over the upcoming vacation, i will be able to do some writing that i can post, because thats always fun. i miss reading all the cool stuff people used to write.
i feel very isolated from the coolness that is the book review group.
(i know you are probably getting sick of hearing this, from me, but posting on the blog would be really cool, and very much appreciated. send some deep, though provoking questions my way! :) )

oh!! we have snow here!!! but now its raining. alas.

see ya!
~Eleanor

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!
I just spent the holiday eating and reading...!
I finished Mortal Engines - a great action adventure story with plenty of good characters and a strange premise for a setting. Can't wait to read the sequel!
My favorite book was The Kiterunner, though. This is a book set in Afghanistan but written by an Afghan-American man who is a wonderful writer, though trained as a medical doctor. Wow. I was really moved by this, but it is definitely "yellow dot."
I've read a couple of other books that didn't thrill me - "godless" by Pete Hautman who also wrote Sweetblood, which I know is a favorite.
It was so enjoyable to spend the day yesterday curled up on the couch with my cat and a really good book!
Seeya on Wednesday...
Ellen

Hey!

I see you are having a Lord of the Rings Marathon... (grins evilly)
I'll be around then!!! (well, I make sure that I am in duxbury anyways.)
are you going to watch the extended version of the movies? you should because they are cooler than the regular ones. (actually I haven't seen the second or third movies' extended versions, but I assume that they would be cooler. as that is generally how it works.)

so, in english i'm reading As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner. Its really weird and confusing. Unfortunately i won't have much to say about books until thanksgiving break. because all my reading time is still being taken up by books for english.
alas.

I saw the picture on the website, too. that's from Salem correct? I wish i could have come. Salem is cool. but 'tis done.
I think that my sister is going to eat my soul. I stopped writing my really long story... (a while ago) alas.

Ida, keep writing the story on your blog!!!!!!!!!! Its really cool!!!!!!
*Must Read More!!!*

see ya!
~Eleanor

p.s. its very sad that the blog is not often used anymore. Please bring it back! ;)

happy samhain!

(i hope i selled that right, and i apologize if i did not.)
anyway...
please post!
that would make me very very happy! (besides you know you want to post on the blog, don't deny it!)

so...
tomorrow is election day... should be interesting...

i'm hoping that sometime during my thanksgiving break, there exists a wednesday that i will be able to randomly attend book group... (evil laughter)

but now, i must go. for i have workjob (i work in the kitchen...)

see ya!
~Eleanor

Here is the plot synopsis so far. I couldn't get all of it as we have some discrepancies in our text, but Katie knows FAR more about how it all fits together than I do. Just sayin'.....
Teen Novel Plot Synopsis:

Book 1: “The Story of the Life you Don’t Want to Live”

Kyle is in her senior year. She’s a girl from a poor family, lives with her father and is in love with the most popular guy in high school. Her mother died in child birth with her, dad wanted a boy, so named her “Kyle.”

Her best friend is named Jean (pronounced as the French) he’s a guy and a trekkie. (StarTrek fan)

The Popular Guy is going out with Kyle’s ex-best friend, Jessica. Jessica turns out to be a lesbian and has a crush on Kyle.

Kyle has a locket from her mom that she can’t open.

She starts abusing drugs and cutting herself. Has sex with popular guy and gets pregnant. He leaves her immediately. In her sorrow and pain, she has a fling with Jessica has a miscarriage and ends up in a coma. While in the coma, Kyle’s dad dies. When Kyle wakes up from coma she has partial amnesia and is very confused. “”Feels like a broken typewriter without a click.”

Book 2:

Main character is Jerry. Jerry wears a trenchcoat and was molested by his parents. He is confused about his sexuality and joins a Trekkie cult of “True Believers in order to fit somewhere. He lives near a railroad track and thinks about leaving every time he hears a train whistle blow.

He is gay and has a crush on Jean, Kyle’s best friend. One day Jerry gets his legs cut off by a train. He is maimed but does not die.

The cult of Trekkies make him endure a ritual ceremony that involves stabbing…..

hey!
did you scare the boston public library guy?
(i assume that you had some sort of unusual philosophical discussion...?)
sadly i still have no books to recommend to you for all my reading time has been taken up by the copious amounts of reading i must do for english/history class.
oh well, at least the book is interesting
which more than can be said for many books one reads for school.
so perhaps i can come visit you during my next vacation.

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hey!
alas. i don't think that i'll be able to meet you at salem... for i have no way of getting there.
so, have fun and take pictures!!!!!
(and go in costume other wise there is little point in taking pictures.)
anyway...
i'm bored...
it's saturday and no one's around...
i don't want to do my homework...
stupid homework...
i have nothing more to say...
alas...

see ya!
~Eleanor
ps. i want to see this ultimate YA novel summary that you wrote. it sounds most amusing
(and now i'm going to stop procratsinating... and do some homework...)

Good job, folks,
Bernie had a good time!
If you haven't given in your permission slip for Salem (Sat. Oct. 30) please do.
We will be making our plans for a visit to see Bernie at the BPL sometime this winter.
He wants all of us to get a photo with our feet on his desk - talk about a power trip!