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--> Nonfiction Behold, the Medici moons GALILEO GALILEI: The Tuscan Artist By Pietro Greco, translated by Giuliana Giobbi 383 pp. Springer Reviewed by Marty Carlock If you want to know every minuscule detail about Galileo, down to his friends, correspondents, doubters, believers, acolytes and enemies – in the sixteenth century everybody who was anybody had blatant enemies – Pietro Greco is your man. If you want an easy read, look elsewhere. The book suffers from a spectacularly bad translation from Italian. It required some nimble re-translation as I read – becoming accustomed, for instance, to use of the word “realize” to mean “fabricate” or “develop,” as in, to realize a scientific instrument. Or to malapropisms like “the emergency of a new science.” Greco is an Italian science writer, educated as a chemist, editor of Scienza & Societ á and active in science education in Italy. The translator’s English is better than my Italian, but it appears she worked with a dictionary...

When Willow Lake asks her daughters for help renovating the family home, each has a reason to hesitate about returning to Maplewood . . . For quiet and bookish Emmy going back to the town that ridiculed her fills her with dread. The youngest Noelle is perfectly comfortable in herself now , but once wanted to fit in so badly that she walked away from her first love. A first love who still lives in Maplewood. And outspoken Rae is painfully aware of how much the townspeople hurt her little sisters growing up. She didn't protect them then, but there's no way she'll let history repeat itself. The sisters agree to go home and make the best of it. After all if they've changed over the years, it's possible the townspeople have too . . . isn't it? Having enjoyed Lisa Dickenson’s previous novels where I have enjoyed her easy flowing wit weaved through the storyline I was thrilled to have the opportunity to read her new release My Sister’s and Me. The storyline follo...

Alice is settling down. It might not be the adventurous life she once imagined, but more than anything she wants to make everyone happy - her steady boyfriend, her over-protective mother - even if it means a little part of her will always feel stifled. Max is shaking things up. After a devastating injury, he is determined to prove himself. To find the man beyond the disability, to escape his smothering family and go on an adventure. A trip to Sri Lanka is Alice's last hurrah - her chance to throw herself into the heat, chaos and colour of a place thousands of miles from home. It's also the moment she meets Max. Alice doesn't know it yet, but her whole life is about to change. Max doesn't know it yet, but he's the one who's going to change it. Isabelle Broom is back and this time she is showing us the sites of Sri Lanka in One Thousand Stars and You. As best friends Alice, Maureen and Steph have their Big 30 looming they decide to spend their birthdays together i...

Fiction Dangerous psycho, buried secrets SEE ALSO PROOF A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery By Larry D. Sweazy 251 pp. Seventh Street Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Veteran mystery and Western writer Larry D. Sweazy is back with his third Marjorie Trumaine mystery. (The first two, See Also Murder and See Also Deception , are also reviewed on this site.) Set in an unusual time and place for a mystery – the North Dakota plains in the 1960s – the series features an unforgettable sleuth. With her formidable intellect and voracious passion for reading, Marjorie Trumaine was her father’s pride and joy. He had hoped she’d become an English professor like his brother-in-law, not a farmer like him. Instead, she dropped out of college to marry her high-school sweetheart, farmer Hank Trumaine. Marjorie’s dream of building a big, happy family never came true. Unable to conceive, her doctor pronounced her barren. Then a freak hunting accident left Hank blind and paralyzed from the neck down...

What if someone else was living your happy ever after? When Maddie wakes up in a hospital bed, she can't remember anything about what happened to her or what has changed. She just remembers she was about to be married and had everything to look forward to. But it seems life has become a lot more complicated while she has been asleep … I am broken…. While I was Sleeping by Dani Atkins has taken me on such a heart-breaking journey and this is definitely her best book yet and one of my top 3 books of 2018. With only days left before her Wedding day to Ryan, Maddie is running last minute errands when she feels that she is being followed. After a desperate phone call to Ryan he arranges to meet Maddie as she gets off the bus. As she catches a glimpse of the stranger as she disembarks the bus she is relieved to see Ryan over the road but as she makes her way to him the unthinkable happens. As her love ones sit by her bedside willing her to come around from her coma time moves on...

Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman . Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning… I was really intrigued by the synopsis of debut novel Vox which is a dystopian novel which sees religious rights enforce their beliefs that females should not be allowed to speak over 100 words which they enforce by fitting all females even young children with wrist counters that clock up the words spoken. Women have had to give up their jobs to stay at home and look after their families. Our main character is Dr Jean McClellan w...