Review: Little Bird Finds Christmas - Marianne Richmond - November 2022 This year I joined a reading challenge to help clear your Netgalley books and Little Bird Finds Christmas is adding to the challenge. This cute adorable Christmas picture book features Little Bird who learns from his mother that Christmas is coming. Little Bird waits and waits, but Christmas hasn't arrived. He gets impatient and so he flies out to see if A) he can find Christmas and B) at the same time discover what Christmas is. Little Bird in the end discovers that Christmas isn't something physical but overall, a feeling of family time, love, joy, and happiness and a time of reflection and quality. It's not about how many presents you get or how wealthy you are or how many people you spend it with. Christmas is a time that you spend with the ones that you love, the ones that matter the most. This cute picture book beautifully illustrated by Janet Samuel is the perfect Christmas read for children a...

Review: Sophie Last Seen - Marlene Adelstein - November 2018 --- End of Review - contains a spoiler which I have added as could be a trigger for readers --- - Lately, I have been getting back into my love of mystery novels after a huge stint where I read mainly New Adult and Romances. Six years ago, Sophie went missing when she was ten years old from the local mall. She was out shopping with her mum Jesse at a shop called the Zone. Now six years later, Jesse is barely coping - she has lost everything as her daughter's case went cold , her husband moved on and married his secretary and has a son and another on the way, her house is like an episode of hoarders inside and the outside looks like no-one has lived there for years. There is one room that has never been touched and that is her daughter's room. Jesse lives in her own world, where every little piece of paper she finds in her path is a clue from Sophie and she gets out her pain by having an affair w...