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As we know new Vampire Diaries won’t be back on until April 7th (in the U.S. anyway), we feel safe having our group read chat on Thursday, March 31. That’s right, we’re giving you until the very end of the month to finish reading Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angel. We’ll talk Will vs. Jem, the Dark Sisters, vampires, clockwork and all things London Institute. The Clockwork Angel discussion chat will be... 
Note: Clockwork Angel is the Vampire Book Club group read for March 2011. We’ll be announcing the date of our group read chat shortly. Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) Cassandra Clare Published: Aug. 2010 (Margaret K. McElderry) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 4 stars Cassandra Clare knows how to give us what we like. Clockwork Angel is full of vampires, steampunk, urban...
We may have told you a time or two how much we enjoy Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. We even had the first book, City of Bones, as a group read. Well, now we’re taking on Clockwork Angel, the first novel in her Infernal Devices series. Expect a complicated love story and plenty of action. The Infernal Devices series is in the same world as The Mortal Instruments, just centuries ago. New... 
We’ve all waited for more information on the fourth installment of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. City of Fallen Angels is set for release on April 5, but Cassie is still being the writer version of a samurai guard with the details of the novel. And maybe that’s part of what makes this little video she put together so much fun. Instead of dropping hints about what will happen in the... 
Yesterday a couple blog friends were talking about a book on Twitter. I caught the middle of the conversation focused on how Spaz P threw the damn book across the room. Being a reading masochist, I couldn’t help but ask what book. She and Nat (Wicked Lil Pixie) were chatting about the fantastic agony-inducing Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson, specifically the fourth book City of Souls. Hearing that a... 
We’re looking forward to tomorrow night’s group read chat. We want to know what you thought about City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (read our review) — including Jace, Clary, Simon, demons and the twist at the end. We hope you’ll join us Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST on Twitter (follow the hashtag #VBC02). If you can’t make it, there’s a great site with discussions on The Mortal Instruments series going daily:...
Join us this coming Wednesday, Sept. 29, for our September group read discussion. We’ll be talking about City of Bones, the first book in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. We’re ready to talk Shadowhunters, coping with Clary’s parents, Jace and the twist at the end. If you’re game to join us, we’ll be holding the City of Bones chat on Twitter at 9 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The...
The September group read, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, is a young adult novel, but one of the key themes we picked up on was that of parents as real people. Often teenagers are so focused inward they are unaware that their parents have lives, hopes and passions. We don’t begin to see these things until coming of age. In the novel 15-year-old Clary has to speed through that realization (in a more... 
City of Bones Cassandra Clare Published: 2007 Purchase at: The Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 4 stars In Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, the opening novel to her The Mortal Instruments series, we’re introduced to a world of Shadowhunters — those who spend their lives ridding the world of demons — through the eyes of 15-year-old Clary Fray. Her world spirals out after witnessing...
First, big thanks to those who joined us for last night’s Crimson Moon chat. Author J.A. Saare joined the fun and answered your questions about the book, gave a few tidbits about the sequels (we’ll post them, too, don’t worry) and filled us in on her other titles. Now, we gave you a couple days to vote for September’s group read. No question, with 47 percent of the vote, Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones... 
