{"id":24575,"date":"2026-02-18T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=24575"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:54:06","slug":"sylum-book-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-book-club-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24436\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-book-club-2\/sylumbookclub1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?fit=500%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,208\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sylumbookclub1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?fit=500%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24436 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?resize=500%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?resize=400%2C166&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?resize=150%2C62&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylumbookclub1.jpg?resize=490%2C204&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What are you reading?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone through a few books &#8211; Audible + Long Commute<\/p>\n<p>The House of Wolves &#8211; James Patterson &amp; Mike Lupica: Not the greatest it screams make me into a Netflix mini series.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s about Jenny Wolf who inherits from her father the NFL team the Wolves and the Newspaper in San Francisco.\u00a0 \u00a0You can tell the sections James Patterson wrote easily.\u00a0 \u00a0Despite the writing not the best, I did find myself want to know what happened, was caught up in the family drama.\u00a0 \u00a0This is a throwaway type of book.<\/p>\n<p>In between big series (which I will post about once finish the full thing) I like to read autobiographies or smaller books to get a good pallet cleanser.<\/p>\n<p>If You Ask Me (But You Won&#8217;t) &#8211; Betty White.\u00a0 LOVED THIS.\u00a0 I have her first autobiography that I still need to read.\u00a0 Just enjoyed this so much, made me laugh and smile.\u00a0 \u00a0Highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you reading? I&#8217;ve gone through a few books &#8211; Audible + Long Commute The House of Wolves &#8211; James Patterson &amp; Mike Lupica: Not the greatest it screams make me into a Netflix mini series.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s about Jenny Wolf who inherits from her father the NFL team the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[1146],"class_list":["post-24575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sylum-book-club","tag-sylum-book-club"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-6on","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16640,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/throwback-thursday-john-henry-patterson-by-bj-jones\/","url_meta":{"origin":24575,"position":0},"title":"Throwback Thursday: John Henry Patterson by Bj Jones","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"September 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Link to Archive","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Side Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Side Stories","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-stories\/side-stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-banner_ThrowbackThursday.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6179,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2016-december-8th\/","url_meta":{"origin":24575,"position":1},"title":"Sylum Advent 2016: December 8th","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"December 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Title:\u00a0John Henry Patterson Author:\u00a0Bj Jones Rating:\u00a0FRT Author\u2019s Note:\u00a0For this Advent I decided to do a series of Character Stories. \u00a0Basically I picked a Character from each Clan and did a small story of their life. \u00a0This was done to showcase other Characters outside the Main Arcs. \u00a0The stories aren\u2019t long,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sylum Advent: 2016&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sylum Advent: 2016","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-events\/sylum-advent-2016\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"bar-banner_advent2016","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-banner_advent2016.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23375,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-spring-fling-2025-day-seven\/","url_meta":{"origin":24575,"position":2},"title":"Sylum Spring Fling 2025: Day Seven","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"April 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Sylum Aesthetic: John Henry Patterson Artist: Bj Jones","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spring Fling: 2025&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spring Fling: 2025","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-events\/spring-fling-2025\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-banner_springfling2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16814,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-trivia-august-2020-answer\/","url_meta":{"origin":24575,"position":3},"title":"Sylum Trivia: August 2020 Answer","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"August 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Name the Hunters from Ghost & Darkness Clan? 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