The Procyon Society est. by cornick & binkley

Reading · watching · playing

On the Desk

What the Society is in the middle of, with notes. Where an item is in the collection, its accession number links through to the record.

Currently reading

Print and audio, in whichever order made sense at the time.

Audiobook series 2020– No. 0503

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

9 / 10

Earth is demolished for a dungeon. A man in boxer shorts and his ex-girlfriend's cat enter a televised deathcrawl. It is far better than that sentence has any right to be.

▸ Partway through the series. Narration by Jeff Hays.

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Currently watching

One at a time, and finished before the next one starts.

Series 2026

Spider-Noir

Oren Uziel · MGM+ / Prime Video

8 / 10

Nicolas Cage as an ageing private investigator in 1930s New York. Shot so it can be watched in black and white or colour. Watch it in black and white.

▸ Watching it in Authentic Black and White, which is the only correct setting.

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Currently playing

Tabletop and otherwise. Plays are logged against the catalogue.

Board game 2019 No. 0104

Wingspan

Elizabeth Hargrave · Stonemaier Games

9 / 10

An engine builder about attracting birds to a preserve. Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019. Over 170 birds, illustrated, each with a real wingspan printed on the card.

▸ 41 plays logged. Jill favours the wetland. This is not a coincidence.

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Video game · Xbox Series X 2025 No. 0577

Blue Prince

Dogubomb · Raw Fury

10 / 10

You inherit a manor with forty-five rooms and are told to find the forty-sixth. The floor plan redraws itself every morning. It is the best puzzle game either of us has played.

▸ Day 41. Jill has reached Room 46. Scott has not. This is a matter of record.

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