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Personal and book review blog. (On hiatus during gardening season.🌱🪴) A one-woman book club. 💙📚💬 www.aHardReturn.com I’m on NetGalley and StoryGraph, too. 💛 https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/hardreturn
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · Mar 1
Reading. Writing about it.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#BooksSky
#BookLover
#BookWorm
#Readers
Yellow toned image of a stack of books held up on an arm. Words in black text over top of it say, “Personal and book review blog. A one-woman book club.” https://ahardreturn.com/
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 44m
ARUNDHATI ROY!!
(omg why did I even try this because Percival Everett also, too, as well, likewise.)
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 2h
Oo!!! And Tommy Orange!!!
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 2h
‘Define’ myself? Meh, but here are my 8 fav authors. Make that 9. 😉

John Steinbeck
David Wroblewski
Barbara Kingsolver
Nan Shepherd
Rohinton Mistry
Amor Towles
Wendell Berry
Claire Keegan
Toni Morrison

(I lied. Dumas, Dickens, and Allende for a top 12.)
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#BookSky #Authors #Favorites #Books
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 4h
The blue design looks more polished to me. Though, I don’t know that it conveys “grim” so much.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 10h
Sunday snuggle reads. Library book I picked up for Celeste Ng’s pull quote. Nursing a very sick puppy through the weekend and hoping to get lost in this.
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#BookSky #Library #Rainy #AmReading #Cozy #Coffee #Books #Love #BookRecs #Reviews #LitFic #Literature #Vibes
A photo of a book, glasses, cup of coffee, and the back of a sleeping puppy on a blanket on lap. The book is “A Thousand Times Before” by Asha Thanki. It is a hardback book with a beautiful cover. The art is green, coral, and warm yellow tones. A profile of a woman in silhouette is made up of patches of patterns and combinations of those three colors. She wears a long veil that upon a closer look, is made up in these alternating patches of these colors and the profiles of two more women’s profiles. The writing is in bright white across the image. The book rests on a white duvet over my lap. A sage green coffee mug with simple leaf pattern rests nest to it on my knee. A pair of deep green glasses next to it. In the top right of the shot are creamy colored ringlets of poodle fur, and the shoulder of said poodle as she sleeps against me.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 3d
Just finished The God Of The Woods by Liz Moore. Fantastic.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 3d
This!
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 3d
I have the same experience in terms of my reading pace not changing over time. I do read faster than speaking though and generally prefer the exercise of reading over that of listening. The exception being while I knit. I will listen while knitting and then resume reading it when my hands are free.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 3d
After reading a book of hers in one night of binge, I’m enjoying the crispy weather today with another! (And a tv fire.)🍂🍁
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#BookSky #BookBinge #LizMoore #LongBrightRiver #TheGodOfTheWoods #AmReading #Books #Review #BookRecs #Blog #Autumn #Cozy
My left hand holds an eReader for the camera. It’s has a pink decorative skin with a pattern of red strawberries and white asters. Beyond the reader stretches my lap and several overlapping patterns in warm tones. A quilt print blanket covers my lap, a bright orange, floral rug is on the floor, a lattice front wood cabinet is beyond that and, in blurry focus in the background, a TV screen with an image of a fireplace on it. The book on the reader is “Long Bright River” by Liz Moore. It’s in greyscale. The title and author are in bold, block letters on what looks like a windowpane streaked diagonally with rain. The white letters are streaked as though they also are runny with rain. Her book, “The God of the Woods” was excellent. It was long for a mystery of its kind but didn’t lag for a minute and was worth the very late night I spent reading it.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 4d
It took till the middle of October but my morning glories have finally started flowering! 💙🌱
#GardenSky #Flowers #Gardening #Grow #Plants #Garden #PlantSky #Love #Nature
My right hand turns a blue flower to face the camera, wrist covered by a denim sleeve. The flower is a Morning Glory. From this angle, it is a perfect, flat circle of blue with a deep, fluted center that is white. The white come up out of the center in a perfect five point star. Early morning rain/dew drops stand on the fused, blue flower petals. A wall of green plant foliage fills the background.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you. 😊
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 4d
What is TLOAS?
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Do you mean that you are alternating between listening to it and reading the physical copy? I do that when I knit.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
LOL I feel that. Def would prefer to be buried under certain genres over others. I hope someone chimes in with info!
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
I get legitimately psyched for strangers when I see them setting and reaching book goals! 💛 (Finished on a great one, too.)
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Well done!! (Also, isn’t StoryGraph just the best?!)
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Got rid of everything when I found BlueSky and haven’t looked back. 💛
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
What is this reselling of books? Does not compute. Aren’t we supposed to collect until we’re buried under them? 😆
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Had to pause the Chuck Tingle at half… hopefully not a DNF though because it was really good. It’s just a lot. Maybe one to read when feeling pretty happy, and even then maybe with mood stabilizers at the ready and a sun lamp. 😂
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Bahaha I knew I didn’t know! 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
Wait for it… 💛
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Oct 3, a view from above. Excellent fall weather. 😎🤙🏼🍁🌾🌿🌲🌳 #idahoexcape #idahogems #schweitzermountainresort #sandpoint #sellevalley #djiair3 #mountains #valley #forest
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 6d
When you see and image and think, “Robert Frost.” I don’t even know if these are birch trees… doesn’t matter.
#BookSky 💙 📚 💬 #Poetry
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 7d
Sunday afternoon in my reading/knitting/chilling tent. Alternated listening and reading when my hands were busy. I enjoyed it a lot. Especially all the baseball content!
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Rec:👍
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#BookSky #AmReading #Sunday #LitFic #Books #BookRecs #StephenKing #Baseball #BookLover #InnerChild
My left hand holds a small eReader up. Above and behind the reader are the bright canvas panels of a bell shaped tent riding up to a peaked ceiling. The clear daylight glows through them. The reader has a pink skin on it with red strawberries and white daisies as a print. The book cover on the screen is in grey tones and is Stephen King’s “The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon.” It features a young girl wearing a backwards ball cap with an arm raised and bent, hand adjusting the cap on her head. She is turned three-quarter profile away from camera.
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you for this. It is helpful!
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Hard Return @ahardreturn.bsky.social · 7d
This is a great little write-up.
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