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Kathryn Adams

Woodworker and reader, artistic fantasy/sci-fi fangirl with the attention span of a magpie.
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Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #251: The Good Place series finale

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Since Kathryn finally finished the last season of The Good Place (only a year late! Gotta be a record!) we decided to break down everything we loved about it. Massive spoiler warnings of course! Plus we talk about the last two

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Kathryn Adams

Review: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance Book 1)

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Welcome to the Scholomance, high school for a few thousand budding magic-users. Also home to an uncounted number of deadly magical creatures (“mals”) lurking in cupboards, under desks, in the bathrooms, crawling through the air ducts, and slowly congregating in

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Kathryn Adams

My Favorite Books of 2020

It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. I don’t usually quote myself in these reviews, but for crying out loud, that comment from the end of 2019 is just too ironic

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Kathryn Adams

Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

2021 is almost here, time for one more book from 2020! This week we’ll take a look at T. Kingfisher’s A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. The city of Riverbraid has always been fairly nice for wizards. Not everyone is okay with magic, so in other towns Mona might have had to deal with registration,

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Kathryn Adams

Binary System Fan Art Gallery – Christmas!

Merry merry to all our followers! This month’s fan art gallery was a no-brainer; if there’s anything that’s easy to find, it’s a Christmas version of fan art. From any fandom. Check out some of our favorites below.

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Piranesi

I have climbed up to the Upper Halls where Clouds move in slow procession and Statues appear suddenly out of the Mists. I have explored the Drowned Halls where the Dark Waters are carpeted with white water lilies. I have seen the Derelict Halls of the East where Ceilings, Floors – sometimes even Walls! –

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Axiom’s End

…It isn’t the failure to communicate that fascinates me; it’s the implication that these ETIs appear to have no interest in communication at all. And we humans, vain, egotistical creatures that we are, can’t help but take that a little personally… I’ve still got a few more weeks to add to my list of possible

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