March 2021 FREE BOOK!
Our free book this month is the wonderful novel by Ellen Marie Wiseman THE ORPHAN COLLECTOR. As I read this book, I couldn’t help but compare it to what we are going through with Covid-19. I’m very thankful for all the advances in medicine since the last worldwide epidemic, the Spanish Flu.
From the New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Dray: “The Orphan Collector is an immersive historical tale with chilling twists and turns. Set during the Spanish Flu epidemic in Philadelphia, this atmospheric novel explores the depravity to which some will sink in adversity, but it also illuminates the strength of family bonds and the resilience of the human heart. Beautifully told and richly imagined.”
Our give-away copy is a new trade paperback edition. To have your name included in our Wednesday, March 17 drawing, just answer the following question. One of the main plot points in the novel involves the protagonist Pia Lange’s twin brothers. Do you have twins (or triplets or more) in your family?
Happy Reading!
Sue
I don’t have twins or triplets in my biological family but have twins on my husband’s side of the family.
No twins or triplets in my family, either side!
I have a number of twin cousins. I’ve always thought that twins must have the ultimate closeness of relationships. They have always intrigued me but as they’ve grown to adulthood they have not always stayed any closer, at least outwardly, than other siblings.
I have twin cousins! …and I think my Grandfather was a twin as well.
My sister in law had twin boys the most beautiful bloude blue eyed twins ever how I would have loved to had twins to dress them alike what fun
My dad’s brother had twin boys
No twins or triplets on either side of the family, but I went to school with twins. There were differences, but unless you saw them side-by-side, we never knew which one we were speaking to. They dressed identically on purpose.
I love all these twin comments! I married into a family that has quite a few twins and even one set of triplets. The triplets were about my age and I remember the buzz in our church when they came to visit family in our town and attended the Sunday services. To my surprise, when I began researching my mother’s family, I found a set of triplets born in the early 1800s. All three babies lived long enough to be baptized three months after their birth, but the one named Hannah did not live much past her first year. The sweet thing about that was how her name was passed down through the next 1
Oops, 100 years… My great great great grandmother was the older sister of these triplets. She was about 10 when they were born, and she named one of her daughters after the deceased triplet.
Sandy Peterson sister to Shirley baker and sharon Burris older sisters Gayle, deceased and carol I taught with another triplet. I think one of her triplet siblings died at birth. One of our friends in our boating group has two sisters and one boy that are triplets we are identical We met someone over 60 years ago at my uncle earls house in flint. She was one of a set of triplets. We are celebrating our 75th birthday next week st Patrick’s day.