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Sam’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Joyce Carol Oates
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter
tags: children, motherhood, parenting
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“There is something female about being dead.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
tags: dead, death, female
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