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Book Review: ‘The Girl Who Came Home’ by Hazel Gaynor

102 years ago, on April 15, 1912, the lives of thousands of people changed forever. Many lives were lost and the few that were...

Book Review: ‘Nine Rabbits’ by Virginia Zaharieva

Your first impression of Nine Rabbits by the Bulgarian author Virginia Zaharieva, you think you picked up a memoir instead of a novel. Flipping...

Pop-Ed: Books That You Shouldn’t Give to Your 1-Year-Old Nephew

Written by Kelly O'Dowd I used work at a large chain bookstore for about 8 years. In this time, I needed to recommend multiple books...

Book Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Comics

I love comics. I love them wholly, weirdly, unapologetically. My third-grade teacher wrote my parents a note commending my use of "omnipotent" as a...

Book Review: ‘What I Had Before You’ by Sarah Cornwell

The blurb on the back of the advance reader's copy states “Told in radiant prose, What I Had Before I Had You is...

Book Review: ‘Dr. Sleep’ by Stephen King

Written by Sue Bodkin Stephen King's The Shining is arguably the most well known and oft quoted horror story of all time. Thanks in...

Book Review: ‘The Wes Anderson Collection’ by Matt Zoller Seitz

The old adage goes -- you can't judge a book by its cover. Well, in this instance, you can't judge a book by its...

Book Review: ‘One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories’ by B.J. Novak

When actor B.J. Novak released his debut short story collection One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories earlier this month, many people were surprised...

Book Review: Divergent

What do you get when you mix SAT vocabulary, the greater issues of 1984, teenage angst and young love? Well, yes, that would give...

Book Review: ‘Runner’ by Patrick Lee

Review by Scott Clifford | Introduction by Kelly O'Dowd Books, books, books. Some say that print is dead, but here at Pop-Break, we disagree. With...

Pop-Break Live: Amazing Arizona Comic Con

Amazing Arizona Comic Con is not the oldest or biggest comic book convention in the world, but I assure you, what it lacks in...

The Collection: Jarrad Leary

Name: Jarrad Leary 

The State/Country You Live In: Sheffield, England 

Favorite Horror Film and Why: Halloween (1978) - I see Halloween as a work of art,...