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[gabi]

OMG! Yes! Jace!!! *squeals*

[Firefly]

Wait, what? What newsletter? What about Jace? Is this from Jaye's blog?

[Sierra]

Yes!! OHHHH I WANT SAMARA'S PERIL SO BAD NOW!!! JACE!!!!!
Firefly, It's her newsletter, I got it & can forward it to you if you want! :)

[C.B.]

@Merenwen: I'm halfway through the chapter, but Physics keeps stopping me. :P

@Everyone: Elizabeth told me that she wrote book 3 before books 1/2, so she said you'd probably get more references if you read the third one first. :P

[Alyssa]

@C.B. Cool! I'm half-way, and I'm not confused!! :)

[Firefly]

Sierra *Soar on wings like eagles* wrote: "Yes!! OHHHH I WANT SAMARA'S PERIL SO BAD NOW!!! JACE!!!!!
Firefly, It's her newsletter, I got it & can forward it to you if you want! :)"

Thanks, Era.

[Alyssa]

OH MY GOSH I JUST READ IT!!!! Poor Jace!! :'(

And I so hope that it's published in March so that I can get it for my birthday! ;)

[Firefly]

*finishes reading excerpt and starts choking on the feels and Jayrin and precious Jace who desperately needs huggles and chocolate*

[Alyssa]

Same!

[Firefly]

Guess what I'm eating right now?? Shortbread cookies!!
and THERE IS SNOW ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE. I AM VERY HAPPY.

[Amanda]

I have snow too!




(Wait...Firefly...we live in the same state, right?)

[Tamara]

We have snow in CT too!! :)

[Morgan]

No snow in GA. Well, unless you're in the mountains. I think they got a little.

[Alyssa]

Most of our snow melted two days ago... :( BUT we got a little yesterday, so yay!! (And I'm eating mashed potatoes and will be making double chocolate cookies if my siblings would stop eating the chocolate!!!) So ... that was a little long. :P

[Firefly]

Amanda wrote: "I have snow too!




(Wait...Firefly...we live in the same state, right?)"

Yup :D

[gabi]

I wish... I miss it! PR will never get snow. :‘-(

[Alyssa]

@Gabriela Where did you use to live?

[Amanda]

No snow for me, although it is definitely cool outside, and it's supposed to hit 39 tonight which is basically "cue statewide panic" for FL.

[gabi]

Haha, Amanda!

Alyssa, I moved from Massachusetts to Puerto Rico. But I have also lived in Wisconsin.

[Alyssa]

Ah.

[Hannah]

I am all the way in Oregon. No snow. Just a loooot of rain. What's Puerto Rico weather like?

[Alyssa]

I loooove Oregon!! It's my birthstate! :)

[gabi]

It is hot and very humid. It seems to be one second sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky then the next it is pouring rain. So some weeks it feels like it rains everyday, but when it does rain it is usually only for a few minutes. It has finally gotten a tiny bit chilly in the morning which is nice.

[Katelyn]

Here in GA, it just started to feel like winter. Temperatures last night were below 20°F. Where was this at Christmas?? I've been cheated :(

[Amanda]

Gabriela, that's what Florida does the vast majority of the year. (All except for December and January, really.)

[Hannah]

I went to Flirida once and being a born and raised an Oregonian the I rejected my rain poncho and took off my shoes and stood in the rain to get relief from the heat. It felt sooo good. I'm pretty sure I got wierd looks from passerby.

[Alyssa]

I do that in Ohio, and I did it when I visited FL. :P

[Amanda]

Hannah, that's hilarious. I've done it before, I'm sure. :)

[Katelyn]

Really wishing I had an inviability cloak right now. Jury duty stinks; SO MUCH SITTING.

[gabi]

Ugh... I've never done that before.

[gabi]

Ugh... I've never done that before.

[Amanda]

Aww, I'm sorry, Katelyn. That sounds terrible. My mom was summoned for jury duty a month or so ago, but she got out of it because of the "small children" excuse. Good thing, too...

[Katelyn]

I couldn't; the family I nanny for is on vacation, so I'm stuck on Day 2 of sitting here listening to people talk.

[Claire]

I've gotten out of jury duty twice because I'm a college student. I dread the day I can't have that excuse.

[Tricia]

Claire wrote: "I've gotten out of jury duty twice because I'm a college student. I dread the day I can't have that excuse."

Ha, ha! Last winter, I got jury duty. I no longer had college as an excuse, so I had to send in all the paperwork and call in to the line to see if my jury number was called in for the next day. Last winter had so much snow, the courts sessions were canceled and I never actually had to go.

[A'laura]

I've never been on jury duty (*knock on wood*) but then again, I am a sophomore in high school XD

[Amanda]

At what age does one become eligible for jury duty, anyway? I feel like I remember something about driver's licenses...

[Amanda]

I think you have to be eighteen? I don't know. Since we moved to our house in 2008, only a mile away from our old house actually, the judiciary people haven't found our "new" home address. Hehehehehe. So neither of my parents have been called on.

[Katelyn]

In my state, GA, it's 18 and older. Just got out and have to go back tomorrow. Good thing I'm getting paid for this!

[Katelyn]

You get put in the pool if you're registered to vote, or have a driver's license. In my state, as of 2012, those lists are then combined and jurors are chosen from the master list.

[gabi]

So...how is everyone? Has anyone read or listened or watched anything amazing?

[A'laura]

I'm wonderfu, Gabriela! I'm currently reading Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare (if no one has read any of the Shadowhunter books by her, you're missing out!)

[gabi]

Cool! I've been interested in reading some of Clare's books, but I'm a bit afraid of there being inappropriate love scenes or something. Does it have that kind of stuff in it?

[A'laura]

Oh no! Yes, there's kissing and all that but only in maybe 2 of her books there are love scenes but they aren't graphic at all.

[Alyssa]

I've recently gotten City of Bones by her from ThriftBooks, and I was kinda wondering the same thing. My older sister is gonna read it ahead of time.

[gabi]

Oh, okay! That's good. So would you read The Mortal Instruments first or The Dark Artifices first?

[A'laura]

Nothing is graphic, it just says how the person is feeling. I don't really know how to explain it, but in order to really understand that the characters were doing it, you'd have to read the passage a few times. The first time I read one (which was in the last book of the Mortal Instruments series), I just thought the character was talking about their love, not actually doing anything.

[Amanda]

I read on PluggedIn that there was a bit of language and some not-so-great references, but I also read a spoiler, and was like..."Welp, now I ruined the book for myself." xD

[A'laura]

There's 3 series. I read Mortal Instruments 1-5 first, then Infernal Devices (3 books), then Mortal Instruments #6, and now the first book in the Dark Artifices. You don't HAVE to read them in that order, but it makes so much more sense.

[gabi]

OH! I didn't even realize there was that many series! 8O