{"id":24672,"date":"2026-03-22T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=24672"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:52:57","slug":"sylum-book-club-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-book-club-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So what’s everyone reading or read this month?<\/p>\n

I’ve read a few!<\/p>\n

My top favorite was Grant & Sherman: How Their Friendship Won the Civil War by Charles Flood – this is a great book (a bit dry) but a very interesting look at their friendship and how it affected the Civil War.\u00a0 It does rely on the reader having some knowledge of the war, battles, and people.\u00a0 \u00a0I won’t tell you the amount of Sherman\/Grant bunnies I now have running around trying to outflank Bob.<\/p>\n

I’m Your Huckleberry by Val Kilmer:\u00a0 Very interesting to learn more about Kilmer and his philosophies in life.\u00a0 I enjoyed\u00a0 some of the personal looks at iconic rolls, and his connections with so many people.\u00a0 If you like autobiographies this is a good one.<\/p>\n

The Downloaded by Robert Sawyer – okay this is for Audible only.\u00a0 Only reason I picked it up was one of the narrators was Brendan Fraiser.\u00a0 I was surprised at how good the story was, it was fascinating, kept me intrigued and really pulled me in.\u00a0 It’s not long, and a good story.\u00a0 There is a sequel to it – not as good as the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  So what’s everyone reading or read this month? I’ve read a few! My top favorite was Grant & Sherman: How Their Friendship Won the Civil War by Charles Flood – this is a great book (a bit dry) but a very interesting look at their friendship and how it …<\/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-24672","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-6pW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17002,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-william-tecumseh-sherman\/","url_meta":{"origin":24672,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Inspiration: William Tecumseh Sherman","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"October 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Sylum: Member \u00a0 Born Tecumseh Sherman, his father named him after the famed Shawnee Warrior. 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