Category Archives: Books

2017: A Look Ahead

Posted on 12/30/2016 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

2016 is near its end or it’s over based on when you read this. It was a rough year in many respects, but it gave us a ton of excellent pop-culture. 2017 as of now promises to do the same. … Continue reading →

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Armchair Book Expo America: Beyond the Books

Posted on 05/13/2016 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Today ABEA calls for bloggers to discuss the bookish things beyond traditional novels that we enjoy.  For me that’s an easy discussion because after I became a reader on my own at a very young age I found myself introduced … Continue reading →

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BEA 2016: What I’d Get If I Was There

Posted on 05/06/2016 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

I won’t be able to attend BEA this year. I could not expense for airfare to Chicago as well as hotel near convention center + expenses for 3-5 days, not to mention whatever the costs even with book rate to … Continue reading →

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Post BEA via Video

Posted on 08/31/2015 by Pop-Culture Spectrum
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Peculiar Children are the best kind

Posted on 05/22/2015 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

With the film in production and a soon to come cover reveal on the forthcoming third book, I felt I needed to truly finally get my thoughts around Ransom Riggs‘ series from my mind to the page. To explain something … Continue reading →

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The Lies We Tell Ourselves (Little Black Lies review)

Posted on 03/31/2015 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Psychiatry has long be a part of some of my favorite TV shows and sometimes they’ve coincided with murder mysteries. From Private Pr active to more recently Perception, the secrets hidden in the brain that have been studied by the practices … Continue reading →

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The Secrets of the Empire are Now YOURS to have (Star Wars Empire that is)

Posted on 11/03/2014 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

From a galaxy far, far away, Lucasfilm announces discovery of the IMPERIAL HANDBOOK, filled with secret intelligence for the Commanders of the Imperial Military   New York, NY:  October 6, 2014: This fall, just in time for the holiday season, Lucasfilm™ announces … Continue reading →

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Get Lost with Adi Alsaid (You’ll be glad you did)

Posted on 08/09/2014 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

At the end of July 2014, Adi Alsaid‘s first mass market novel for teens, LET’S GET LOST, hit shelves.  I was first introduced to Adi at Book Expo America a few years ago when randomly at a panel he sat … Continue reading →

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To Boldy Review where no Date has Reviewed

Posted on 12/04/2013 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

I have not truly amazingly had the luck to actually date many fellow nerds in my life. This isn’t to say I haven’t dated, jut I haven’t dated many nerds. The people who I consider my own. The comic fans, … Continue reading →

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From Drawing to Creature to Department

Posted on 11/27/2013 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

The YA book THE CREATURE DEPARTMENT is full of fun, excitement, suspense, humor, yummy food, corporate espionage, memories, and lovable folks. The writer Robert Paul Weston really created something absolutely wonderful in prose. A whole new “universe” that is full … Continue reading →

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