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“We know each other to the bone”

One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin

July 7, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Not My Wheelhouse (It’s part memoir, part sociology, part parenting guide.) I likely never would have picked this up if I didn’t have identical twins. Now I’m a mother I do read parenting books to give me some idea of what the hell I am doing but I tend not to gravitate to the memoir side of things. I want hard facts: this is how you raise your kid so they’re not a sociopath, and not: this is my story but we’re all […]

Life might not be basketball, but basketball can be Life

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

June 24, 2019 by BlackRaven 3 Comments

My goal this year was to read books I tend not to read. I was doing well but quickly fell back into my comfort zones. One being YA graphic novels. As far as I know, I have not read any Kwame Alexander novels. I might have read a short story or two, but that is it. Therefore, I have wanted to add him to my To Be Read List and figured a graphic novel was a good way. What it turned out to be was […]

You’re not heavy you’re my twin

Twins: A Picture Book by Mike Ciccotello

June 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Twins: A Picture Book is a slightly limited audience story as it is aimed at twins. But like the stories about how friends do not have like the same things or can like the same things but do them differently or even how sometimes even friends/twins fight and love it can be relatable to different people. Our twins play everything from leap frog to piano duets, and love being a twin, even when they disagree. The sibling dynamic is perfectly portrayed in fun, light text. […]

More a memoir, less a guide

Ready or Not...There We Go!: The REAL Experts' Guide to the Toddler Years with Twins by Elizabeth Lyons

February 8, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

A so-called guide to surviving the toddler years and beyond with twins. Elizabeth Lyons and her ‘sorority’ of twin mums have apparently seen and done it all and have got you covered on what to expect and how to get through it. Trying to navigate parenting toddlers is hard yo, twins or singletons or whatever. These tiny little basically drunk people who can’t tell you what’s up and are hard-wired to throw themselves into danger at every possible moment are amazing but exhausting. So I’m […]

“Sisters, sisters There were never such devoted sisters”

October 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Another book that has potential and then just fizzled out for me was The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful. It was another book that I thought pages had stuck together, I had missed something or if the unfinished copy had pages go out of order. I could tell that Nancy Tupper Ling had put in a lot of effort into her text, but sadly, it was lost on me. I just could not get into it. It was Andrea Offermann’s illustrations that made the […]

We Are Family, I Got All My Sisters With Me

January 18, 2017 by pluiedenovembre 5 Comments

I love Nadiya Hussain. If you are a fan of The Great British Bake Off, you probably love her too. Nadiya was the winner in 2015, and she is, by all accounts the most popular winner in the history of the show. Charming, warm, funny, self-deprecating and gifted with a marvelously expressive face, she made all of us fall in love with her. Since winning TGBBO, Nadiya has published a cookbook (which I received as a surprise present last week from a lovely friend who […]

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