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Too Much Ice in My Water: A Memoir
by Boyd Hamilton MacDonald
A memoir told in remembered scenes, read chapter by chapter and now complete.
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For Authors
Put Your Book in Front of Readers Who Actually Read.
Hunt Down We Read connects authors with a community built around discovering, reading, discussing, and remembering great books. Selected books can become part of structured reading challenges, reader discussions, author conversations, reviews, and community recognition.
The Author Experience
What happens to a book inside HDWR.
A reading experience, built step by step. No promises about sales, ratings, or reader counts - only a genuine path to discovery and discussion.
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Submit Your Book
Send your title, synopsis, and format. We read submissions ourselves rather than screening by algorithm.
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Book Selection
Titles are chosen for what they give readers to discuss, not for marketing budget.
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Author Spotlight
Your book and background are introduced to the community before reading begins.
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Community Reading
Members read on a shared schedule, chapter by chapter, across the challenge window.
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Reader Discussions
Moderated prompts open per chapter or story so responses stay specific to the text.
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Author Q&A
You can answer reader questions directly during or after the reading window.
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Reader Feedback
Members share honest reactions and reviews. Their conclusions are their own.
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Community Recognition
Titles may be nominated by readers for Community Choice recognition.
Author Benefits
More Than Promotion. A Reading Experience.
HDWR does not simply post your book. The objective is to build an actual reading experience around it.
Targeted reader discovery
Readers who opt into a challenge because the subject interests them.
Structured community reading
A shared schedule keeps the whole community in the same pages.
Chapter discussions
Prompts tied to specific chapters or stories, not vague impressions.
Genuine reader reactions
Unscripted responses from people who finished the reading.
Author-reader interaction
Direct conversation between you and the people reading your work.
Reader reviews and feedback
Written reflections members choose to publish and share.
Community voting and recognition
Reader-nominated awards decided by the community.
Long-term discoverability
Your title stays in the HDWR archive after the challenge closes.
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Why Authors Choose HDWR
- Real reader conversations
- Structured reading experiences
- Direct author-reader interaction
- Meaningful reader feedback
- Long-term literary community visibility
Why HDWR
A different kind of book club.
HDWR is not a place to scroll past covers. It is a discipline - a global gathering of readers who believe books are tools for growth, empathy, and critical thinking.
Read With Purpose
Every book is chosen to challenge assumptions and provoke reflection - never filler, never fluff.
Quarterly Challenges
Structured reading arcs with weekly discussions, progress tracking, and completion certificates.
Reader Discussions
Curated prompts and moderated conversations that go deeper than reviews.
Community Awards
Reader-voted recognition - Book of the Quarter, Author of the Quarter, and more.
Reader Spotlights
The most thoughtful members are featured across our channels and archives.
Personal Growth
Reading as a discipline for empathy, critical thinking, and transformation.
Currently Reading - Aug 3 to Aug 20
Two books, one community
We have finished the MacDonald memoir and the Hegarty collection. The community reads on with Barron and Coe, now in Chapter 4.
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They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up
by Justine Barron
An investigation into the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody in April 2015, and the conspiracy among city leaders to obscure how he was fatally injured. We read the evidence chapter by chapter.
Progress
Community position - Chapter 4 (started Aug 3)
Now Reading
Don't Blame Oliver
by Will Coe
Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe answers Lord Clarendon's history of the English civil war, moving through newsrooms, parlours, taprooms and brothels rather than battlefields alone.
Progress
Community position - Chapter 4 (started Aug 3)
The Archive
Completed Reads
Every book we have finished together - including Suns of the End, now closed - with the discussions, dissents, and discoveries the community brought to each one.
Completed
Short Stories About a Tall Woman: Remembering Genevieve
by Anthony Hegarty
Short stories written in remembrance of Genevieve, read one at a time and now complete.
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Suns of the End: Volumes One and Two
by Robert Gryn
An expansive two-volume meditation on endings, endurance, and the last embers of light in a cold cosmos.
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We Follow the Dying Light
by David Donaldson
A haunting exploration of belief, doubt, and quiet perseverance.
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The Reluctant Disciple
by Jim O'Shea
A candid account of faith wrestled with rather than inherited.
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Flight of a Butterfly
by Sierra Burke
A tender debut on fragility and the metamorphosis of self.
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Concept to Conclusion
by Jyssica Schwartz
A practical companion for writers who want to finish what they start.
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Don't Be Silly You Don't Run
by Steve Denniss
A humorous, moving memoir on becoming who you laughed at.
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Opening a Pet Grooming Salon
by Tanya Ellis
Ten disciplined steps from dream to open doors.
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Reengineering Purchasing
by Paul D. Ericksen
A serious study in operational transformation.
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The Non-Obvious Guide to AI for Marketing
by David Berkowitz
Clear thinking on a noisy new medium.
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