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Alex’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Alex Beecroft’s Followers (298)
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Alex Beecroft
Goodreads Author
Born
in Dundonald, The United Kingdom
Website
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Influences
Tolkien, Patrick O'Brian, Ursula LeGuin
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Member Since
March 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alex_beecroft
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False Colors
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2009
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11 editions
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Trowchester Blues (Trowchester Blues, #1)
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2015
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6 editions
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Captain's Surrender
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2007
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9 editions
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The Reluctant Berserker
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2014
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5 editions
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Blessed Isle
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2012
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2 editions
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Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)
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2015
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5 editions
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Blue Eyed Stranger (Trowchester Blues, #2)
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Foxglove Copse (Porthkennack, #5)
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2017
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2 editions
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Shining in the Sun
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2010
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7 editions
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Too Many Fairy Princes
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2013
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6 editions
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I (Still) Aten’t Dead
Well, it was Covid when I made my last post in this blog! I wonder if it still works? Much of my website doesn’t, and I may be breaking it further by trying to fix it.
Many things have happened since then – chief among them being me getting fibromyalgia and having to adapt to life as a disabled person. Also the world seemed to be spiraling into depths of misery I had not been prepared f
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Essential reading for belly dancers It's so nice to read something about Oriental dance written by someone for whom it is their culture. It just isn't possible to understand a thing from the outside as well as from the inside ...more |
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“if sex could exist without love, it surely stood to reason that love could exist without sex.”
― Blue Steel Chain
― Blue Steel Chain
“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.”
― Shining in the Sun
― Shining in the Sun
“To all the asexual activists out there without whom I would still be thinking of myself as merely weird, wrong, and slightly inhuman. In the hope that the more people talk about it, the fewer people there will be in the world who reach my age without knowing what they are.”
― Blue Steel Chain
― Blue Steel Chain
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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Romance Readers R...:
July - What are you currently reading?
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| Romance Readers R...: Shannon's Reading Challenges 2009 | 43 | 188 | Dec 16, 2009 06:41PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Shannon's 50 Books Challenge - COMPLETED! | 79 | 280 | Jan 03, 2010 09:52AM | |
| Romance Readers R...: 2009 A-Z Book Challenge | 315 | 857 | Jun 10, 2010 09:03AM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Wim's attempt for 50 in 1 year | 19 | 58 | Jan 01, 2012 09:03AM |
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
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Sophia wrote: "Thank you for accepting my friend request, Alex. Now I can come and make complimentary comments each time I read yet another one of your wonderful Age of Sail stories.Sophia"
*g* I'm thoroughly behind this plan :) Thank you for asking me!
Thank you for accepting my friend request, Alex. Now I can come and make complimentary comments each time I read yet another one of your wonderful Age of Sail stories.Sophia
Mary J. wrote: "Hi, Alex, Great to be connected here with you, too. It's been awhile! I see you've been a very busy author. :-) I'm trying to be. Thanks for finding me here."
Thanks, Mary! I sadly end up just doing nothing everywhere. But at least I'm writing, which is the main thing.
Hi, Alex, Great to be connected here with you, too. It's been awhile! I see you've been a very busy author. :-) I'm trying to be. Thanks for finding me here.
I seem to be everywhere! I think it's time I rationalized and cut some stuff out. But I'll keep this one because this is where all the cool people are ;)
