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!

hi!
When are you going to Salem?!
maybe i can meet you there...?

See ya!
~Eleanor

Hi folks!
We are good to go with our Salem trip. I and Ida's mom, Emily's dad, and Erin's mom are driving.
If you can't go, don't worry. We'll be taking other trips in and around the Boston area throughout the year.
Katie - Great job with the novel synopsis. I can't believe you got everyone's input, but you did.
Wow. We should posted it here so Elenaor can read it, too. She'll definitely get it.
Eleanor - I hope you are doing well. We miss you! Trickster's Queen is out and everyone is on hold for it. Other books we talked about last week are: the Persepolis books I & II by Satrapi, Odo Hirsh books, Orca Soundings books (very short, but good), Perks (of course), Witches Key to Terror, the Led Zeppelin biography: Stairway to Heaven.
Ida noted that she and her French penpal have REALLY bonded. They seem to like the same kind of things.
My impression is that next weekend is the Drama club's Fall Festival. I hope all goes well for it. I will be in Chicago visiting my daughter, Anna. She is really liking the University of Chicago. It is a place where the "Life of the Mind" is alive and well. The discussons are great and the readings blend science, philosophy, and literature.
Bernie Margolis, the president of the Boston Public Library is coming to our next Bookmarks' meeting. I hope he enjoys it. I think we should have one of our deeper discussions for him....
Ellen

hey, I was writing beacause I want more Ideas for our story so I can write it more completly.
Thank you,
Katie

Hey everybody (especially Leslie cuz she posted)!

someone else posted! it made me happy! YAY!
i would have to agree with Leslie: it is very depressing that no one posts anymore. alas. you MUST post! the force of the BLOG and the BOOK REVIEW GROUP compels you!
yes, as you may be able to tell, i have too much energy and nothing to do with it right now. study hall hasn't even started and i am pretty much done with my homework! i'll have nothing to do for two hours! AHHH!
oh well, i'm at the library so i'm sure that i'll be able to find some way to amuse myself.
i'm considering posting my annoyance with both the democratic and republican parties. hmm... do i wish to create controversy?
YES, of course i do! why bother asking?!

okay, here goes:
Both party the Democrats and Republicans have very similar views on issues (many of which i don't agree with) and thus, i am annoyed.
for example, they both support the death penalty, neither party wants to address global warming, and such. (the Green Party is interesting, by the way... i had to do a report on them for government class...)

it would be cool if people would respond to this, and we can get the "talking to people" part of the blog going again cuz that's fun (and because i really don't think that you want to read me ramble about nothing on a daily basis)

so, what books have been recommended? i want some books to read in my free time that i don't have! ;)

See Ya!
~Eleanor

hey!
no one writes anymore! its so depressing!
i started reading it and i was like omg! Elenore is the only person who types
so yea
Hi elenor!

Hi!
here is my contribution to the book review group this week. Biting the Sun by Tanith lee is really good. I'm not quite done yet, but so far i'd say it deserves a gold sticker. and the book Winesburg, Ohio is really weird, but kinda cool.
When does the Trickster's Queen come out? i must know! i'm rereading the tricksters choice, as i wait impatiently for the next part of the story. so if anyone knows please tell me!
also, if anyone knows when the fall festival of plays is please post it on the blog because if possible, i intend to go see it. :) sadly i don't think i'll be able to invade a book review group meeting when i have my first vacation/ long weekend type thing, because there is no wednesday then. alas. perhaps i can come and visit over thanksgiving break or christmas break or something like that.
alas, for now i must go continue my homework.

See ya!
~Eleanor

Hey!
i think my personal blog has officially died. alas... i got writers block and couldn't figure out what to do with the story. although i think it would be cool if i could think of anything to write. maybe it will come to me in a dream... hmm...
Does any one know when the new Tamora Pierce book comes out? i know its soon, but when?! i must read it! does any one have any other books to recommend? or any interesting philosphical discussion stuff? if i think of a good topic, i'll let you know.

See Ya!
~Eleanor

Hi All,
I'm posting from Brownsville, Kentucky at their amazing little public library. (Yeay, public libraries!)
We dropped off Anna at University of Chicago the other day and are enjoying the sights and peculiarities of the Mammoth Caves National Park. It really is spectacular. Caverns are cool - in more ways than one!

Eleanor, I think part of the lack of activity on this blog is that I need to RE-introduce our slacker book group folks to the concept of the blog. It can really be fun if we can get some action going. I won't be back in Duxbury until the 27th so don't expect more than Ida and Matty to post until then. Hey, maybe smeone is reading this and will surprise us! Won't that be nice!

Matty, I gave your name and phone # to Elaine, our director, since she asked me for an eleventh grader who might be interested in being on the Long Term Planning Board of the library. It shouldn't be too much work and it will look GREAT on your college applications...... Hope that was Okie Dokey. Say, by the way, did you guys make it to the beach last Wednesday?

See y'all in a couple of licks. (Catch the Kentucky slang goin' on?)
Ellen

Hey.
no one's posting.
don't make me boycott posting! ;) (actually, i probably wouldn't do that because i'd get too bored...)
but really, i think that the last three or so posts have been by me, and its kinda sad, in my opinion.
so i think i'll send the book review group a (long) email in the near future, cuz i'm cool like that.... yeah.
so you should all post! (i refuse to let the blog die! after all, i got most of you to start posting in the first place.) ;)

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hey,
i'm bored! i have nothing to do until 10:50!
what books have been recommended rececently?
i think that more people need to post on the blog... its the only way i can talk to most of you!
I may e able to come back and visit duxbury sometime in the middle of october. (i think that the weekend might be the 16th of october, or something around there.)
if anyone knows when the Fall Festival of Plays is, please tell me! it would be much appreciated.
so, how the new schedule working out? does it still suck as much as it did at first? (if so, i am very sorry...).

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hey,
i'm bored! i have nothing to do until 10:50!
what books have been recommended rececently?
i think that more people need to post on the blog... its the only way i can talk to most of you!
I may e able to come back and visit duxbury sometime in the middle of october. (i think that the weekend might be the 16th of october, or something around there.)
if anyone knows when the Fall Festival of Plays is, please tell me! it would be much appreciated.
so, how the new schedule working out? does it still suck as much as it did at first? (if so, i am very sorry...).

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hey!
wow, my sense of time is dead! i have been at school for about three weeks, but it doesn't feel like three weeks. and i can't decide if it feels like more or less time than that. i think it is both, which makes no sense to anyone but me... i'm confusing myself... i'll stop now.
anyway, has anyone read the short story "yellow wall paper"? its really weird, and kinda cool... its about a lady who has postpartum depression. so her husband, who is a doctor takes her to the counrty to get well. but they stay in a room with very disturbing yellow wall paper. eventaully she thinks she sees some one trapped behind the pattern in the wall paper. it turns out that she is the one who is trapped. its a cool, but really weird story.
sadly i have very little time to read on my own... alas.
so hmm... what else have i to say?
grr! i'm still jelous of you guys for getting to meet Tamora Pierce! grr... oh well.
so... "The Raven", by Poe, is really cool. it has a really cool rythm and rhym scheme. yeah, i sound like a dork, but i care not!
so if your planning any trips in the near future, tell me. perhaps i'll be able to meet you guys somewhere...

See ya!
~Eleanor

It's good to hear from Eleanor!
We miss you but are glad to know you're still just a "click" of the mouse away.
I am getting ready to embark on my ten day vacation out to the Heartland of America.
Dropping Anna off at Univ. of Chicago, then on to points unknown.... We were planning to venture southward and explore Mammoth Caves in Kentucky, but Ivan the Terrible to marching ever northward, bringing rain, wind and flooding in his wake. I think Canada is looking better and better...!
Talking to Tamora Pierce about the use of magic got me to thinking. Many is the time I've wished for a bit of magic to get me out of a situation or two. She emphasized that she doesn't use magic as an "escape hatch." That's just too easy and not realistic. Instead, she sees magic as just another part of someone's personality - frequently one that needs to be tamed and brought under control in order for it to be useful to the person. Sometimes I think people actually have powers that they don't understand or utilize fully. If they did, they'd be considered far more powerful than they are. Do you have a quality that, if tapped or enhanced, would be magical? What if you could just embellish it a tiny bit? (Hmmmm...the possibilities are verrrrry interesting.......)

Hey,
so, whats up?
yes, i know i need to post more often. i think my last post was sometime perhaps two weeks ago... or some such thing.
anyway how is life?
i haven't been able to read much because i've been busy. i want my free time back! (okay, so i never really had any to begin with. actually now that i think about it, i may have more free time here than i did at home... thats not the point!)
school is good for the most part, at times it is stressful, but alas that is the way school is...
send me some philosophical questions, for they are most amusing. i can contemplate them during study hall whan i finish my homework early.

see ya!
~Eleanor

Hi All -
Some of us went up to Boston to visit Tamora ("Call me Tammy") Pierce. She was a riot. She talked about how she comes up with her characters (clips cool looking picture of people out magazines and uses them as models) and how plot is actually way trickier to get right than characters.

She also told us that she is going to be writing a book that comes out FIRST as a full cast audio CD before it is pbulished as a printed book! This is kind of weird but she's a good friend of Bruce Coville who is now publishing audiobooks of full cast productions of books already written, and it seems to be the next best thing.

I went to a cool music festival yesterday - The Rhythm and Roots Festival - in Rhode Island. It was really fun. A lot of dancing and eating of Cajun cooking. Next week I drive out to Chicago to take Anna to college. University of Chicago starts late. It sounds kind of like Eleanor's school in that it has 3 terms and people only take 3 to 4 courses at a time. Lots of reading, though.

See y'all on Wed.

Hi,
i'm sorry your new schedule sucks... 'tis sad.
my schedule is quite weird. there are 3 terms and only 2 classes per term... and theres lots and lots of homework. ah alas....
but anyway, I have school tomorrow, which is annoying cuz its a holiday. at least I get to sleep late.
and hmmm... what else have I to say. i know not.

see ya!
~Eleanor