That would work fine too....My e-book doesn't have indentations at the beginning of each paragraph. It's a bit of a mess. *shrugs*
So what are you reading, now? Part V
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That would work fine too....My e-book doesn't have indentations at the beginning of each paragraph. It's a bit of a mess. *shrugs*
Rereading the SCE books. Got a book I missed, and am now working through them. Just finished Wildfire!
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I just finished "Ship of the Line" for the second time. I really enjoy it.
I got the book while the miniseries was still airing, or at least while I was watching it, I just haven't gotten a chance to read it yet.
I recently finished The Forgotten 500, which is an interesting bit of WW2-era revisionist history. It's the story of hundreds of American airmen who were forced to bail out of their bombers over Yugoslavia, who were sheltered by Serbian peasants and protected partially by Draza Mihailovich. Mihailovich led one of the major resistance groups (the Chetniks) working against the Nazi occupation (the other being Tito's Partisans), but British intelligence began to suspect he was collaborating with the Nazis in order to better fight the Moscow-backed Partisans, and after WW2 Tito had Mihailovich executed. The author of this book (Gregory Freeman) portrays Mihailovich as an absolute saint who was betrayed by a Communist conspiracy within British intelligence. I found Freeman's take to be entirely too simplistic. It's perfectly plausible that Mihailovich worked with the Germans when their interests overlapped, while at the same time he disliked them and protected the American fighters out of kindness and forward-looking politics. His legacy is definitely complicated, though..
Now I'm reading either Bomber by Len Deighton or Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff. I'm also halfway into the fourth Vanguard book. Bloody Klingons!
Now I'm reading either Bomber by Len Deighton or Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff. I'm also halfway into the fourth Vanguard book. Bloody Klingons!
I'm reading the enterprise novel kobayashi maru. I have to say that I'm not entirely sure about it, seems to completely ignore some parts of the the series, but I'm giving it a go still, might be my misunderstanding.
I finished Starfleet Academy: The Delta Anomaly the other day. Now I'm reading Psych: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read.
I just downloaded calibre and used it to add a space between paragraphs. I'm not sure how to add indentations, but the extra space should help the reading process considerably.
I'm a couple hundred pages into The Scar by China Mieville and enjoying it. So far I like it better than King Rat and Perdido Street Station, not as much as The City and the City. It's great seeing someone writing big, inventive fantasy novels that owe next to nothing to Tolkien and all the other writers doing long sagas set in variations on medieval Europe. You can see bits and pieces of writers like Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison, among others, but Mieville is basically doing his own thing.
Finished : Death in Winter
Starting : The Husband (dean koontz)
Review For "Death In Winter": I went in to this book fully expecting to like it despite some of the negative reviews I had read about them because I'm a big fan of Picard and Crusher as characters, and I've enjoyed their friendship over the years as it's been a welcome outlet for someone as disciplined and private as Picard. Still, even though that was the main part of the story, I felt that the writing was a bout on par with Time to Be Born/Die. Parts of it read like sloppy fan fiction and other times I felt like I was reading a "clip show" as the author constantly recalled various scenes that played out in the TV series. While there were some interesting parts towards the end of the book, they revolved mostly around the battle that the rebel Romulans fought against the Praetor. All in all, it was not a book I enjoyed very much even though I liked where they moved Picard and Beverly's relationship to.
Starting : The Husband (dean koontz)
Review For "Death In Winter": I went in to this book fully expecting to like it despite some of the negative reviews I had read about them because I'm a big fan of Picard and Crusher as characters, and I've enjoyed their friendship over the years as it's been a welcome outlet for someone as disciplined and private as Picard. Still, even though that was the main part of the story, I felt that the writing was a bout on par with Time to Be Born/Die. Parts of it read like sloppy fan fiction and other times I felt like I was reading a "clip show" as the author constantly recalled various scenes that played out in the TV series. While there were some interesting parts towards the end of the book, they revolved mostly around the battle that the rebel Romulans fought against the Praetor. All in all, it was not a book I enjoyed very much even though I liked where they moved Picard and Beverly's relationship to.
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I'm about 50 or 60 pages into The Time Machine, and so far I'm loving it. I was a little nervous going in because this is both my first HG Wells book, and (as far as I can remember) the first complete novel I've ever read older than 50 years. This has definitely made me alot more excited to continue reading the classics.
Besides previous 10 books this year, I have now completed 7 more:
(1) "A Time to Sow" by Ward & Dilmore; (2) "A Time to Harvest" by Ward & Dilmore; and, (3) "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger; (4) "Killing Time" (ST-TOS) by Van Hise; and, (5) "Infection" (Double Helix 1 ST-TNG) by Betancourt; and, (6) "Living High and Letting Die" by Peter Unger (1996 Non-fiction); and, (7) "Vectors" (Double Helix 2 ST-TNG) by Smith & Rusch. Currently reading "Red Sector" (DH 3 TNG 53) by Carey.
(1) "A Time to Sow" by Ward & Dilmore; (2) "A Time to Harvest" by Ward & Dilmore; and, (3) "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger; (4) "Killing Time" (ST-TOS) by Van Hise; and, (5) "Infection" (Double Helix 1 ST-TNG) by Betancourt; and, (6) "Living High and Letting Die" by Peter Unger (1996 Non-fiction); and, (7) "Vectors" (Double Helix 2 ST-TNG) by Smith & Rusch. Currently reading "Red Sector" (DH 3 TNG 53) by Carey.
You must be one of the few.
British author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series is about various species of humanoid insects battling for freedom against another species in a world set around the equivalent of the industrial revolution. It's incredibly detailed and complex and a joy to read. The series starts with Empire in Black & Gold.
I don't know what it would do to the spacings indicating a scene-change in your ebook but using the 'remove spacings between paragraphs' option activates the 'Indent Size'-input field (under 'look & feel').
Thank you! I left the previous "justification--add space between paragraph" at the same time as using the 'remove spacings between paragraphs,' and I ended up with the indentations and the spacings. Neat trick...
Edit: I checked. The scene change spacing is still double the spacing between paragraphs.
I'm currently rereading Harbinger, I read it when it first came out and have had book two for nearly two years, but because of a (possibly irrational) bad taste left in my mouth concerning A time to Sow/Harvest, I've not been keen on reading any other novels by Dillmore and Ward. After I've finished Harbinger, I will get around to it though.
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