“We knew it was coming…” Aaa! Emily St. John Mandel (author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel) released another book months ago and I’m only just finding out about it now! Two days left to post a review before the end of 2022 so let’s do this really fast because omgyouguysthisbookisbeautiful. We start with
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Spotify/Anchor.fm! Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes). Elizabeth is
We’ve got a few more days before the end of the year to fit in some 2022 books, and John Scalzi’s COVID-era adventure has been showing up on quite a few Best-Of lists The start of the pandemic in early 2020 was a difficult time to navigate: lockdowns pending, fear of contagion all around, businesses
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Okay we’re gonna rocket through the recap of episodes 221 and 222 of Lore Olympus in record time, just over ten minutes, because there’s STILL NOTHING HAPPENING. I kid, I kid. EXCEPT NOT REALLY. We love this webcomic to bits, the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s Night Vale recap has a lot of fan art requests and T-shirt moments, but it’s also us just being flat out amazed that Cecil can get interrupted by his kid every five minutes and it’s always stress free. It’s
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday!) Somehow after last week’s recording we got on the subject of cookbooks, specifically the “Little House on the Prairie” cookbook that we checked out from the library a dozen times before
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week was one of those Night Vale recaps where we took way too many notes and got dangerously close to just repeating the episode word for word because it was so, freaking, CLEVER. (Station Management’s memo to Cecil about the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Episodes 217 and 218 of Lore Olympus didn’t answer a ton of questions, and by that I mean we STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT APOLLO IS UP TO. Okay, yes, we got some good information about how Kronos was able to take
The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do. It’s a day early for my usual weekly book review, but Halloween is the perfect day to review a new(ish) novella by T. Kingfisher that was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”. It’s not one of my favorite Poe short stories