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Little People, Big Dreams in one spot

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and various illustrators

September 2, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you think that when Mozart was first performing, people realized they were living at the same time as someone who would have a centuries long influence on music? Do you think someone heard Freddie Mercury sing and said, “That boy is going to live forever?” Or did they realize they were walking on the Earth along with Neil Armstrong? It was not until recently that I realized Salvador Dali and I were breathing the same air!  Not to mention, I was living at the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Albert Einstein, art, Beatrix Potter, bob marley, civil rights, David Hockney, Dolly Parton, fashion, Louis Braille, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and various illustrators, Michael Jordan, music, Nelson Mandela, Rihanna, Rosa Parks, Simone Biles, Stan Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Taylor Swift, various illustrators, Virginia Woolf, Vivienne Westwood, Yayoi Kusama

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:260 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: Albert Einstein, art, Beatrix Potter, bob marley, civil rights, David Hockney, Dolly Parton, fashion, Louis Braille, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and various illustrators, Michael Jordan, music, Nelson Mandela, Rihanna, Rosa Parks, Simone Biles, Stan Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Taylor Swift, various illustrators, Virginia Woolf, Vivienne Westwood, Yayoi Kusama ·
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Stan Lee and the Novel that Doesn’t Work

A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield

September 6, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo Review 21: No Money I don’t remember the exact circumstance, probably some kind of short term promotion, but Stan Lee’s A Trick of Light was a freebie download for the Kindle, and I kind of wanted to read it, so I downloaded it. The book then sat in my Kindle library for the entire time between its initial release and now. I have to say, finally having gotten to it, I’m glad I didn’t pay anything for this one. I’d have felt a little […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: A Trick of Light, Alliances unvierse, cbr12bingo, comic book style, Kat Rosenfield, Speculative Fiction, Stan Lee, Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:77 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: A Trick of Light, Alliances unvierse, cbr12bingo, comic book style, Kat Rosenfield, Speculative Fiction, Stan Lee, Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield ·
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