What I’m Reading This Month: July 2009

This is the first in a series of new, monthly posts I’m writing about the books I’m reading each month. Yes, I’m an Amazon Associate, which means I get a small referral fee if you buy something through Amazon through a link on my site, but I also thought this would be good because it means I have to actually make time to read the books I say I’m reading.

Without further adieu, here are the three books I’m reading in July:

• Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington

When my folks were visiting over Memorial Day weekend, we had the pleasure of visiting Lincoln’s Summer Cottage in Washington, DC. It became a national monument in 2000–thanks to President Clinton–and was opened to the public in February 2008. While there, I purchased the book Lincoln and Whitman. I was an English major at Catholic University and wrote my final senior research paper on Walt Whitman. I’m only a few pages into the book so far, and I’m already excited to finish it.

• Shopaholic Ties the Knot

I’m not proud of it, but yes, I’m reading the Shopaholic series. After a day of politics and policies, I like to clear my head and read something that doesn’t matter. If you’re female and interested in clearing your head, start with Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan.

• The United States of Arugula

I bought this book for my dad for Fathers’ Day and decided to read it myself, too. It comes highly recommended from a friend and, as a budding foodie myself, I’m really interested to learn how salsa and sushi became part of mainstream American cuisine.

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