What are you reading in July 2009?

Guess I get to start, this month. I'm starting on Abraham Lincoln's World: How Riverboats, Railroads and Republicans transformed America by Thomas Crump. Lincoln's World starts with 1809, the year he was born. This is also the period of life of Walter and Susan (Schwyhart) Kinnick, my third great-grandparents, so this add a little special flavor - this was their world too, from a different point of view... from Ohio, and then then northern Illinois.

I wrote reviews for a few LibraryThing Early Reviewer books that I'd forgotten to read including Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger and Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland.

I'm finishing the Aldo Leopold biography, then it's time to choose from a big stack of books that have been waiting on my table.

I'll be interested to see how you liked the Aldo Leopold biography. Seems an interesting person, does the biography work well?

Finished Abraham Lincoln's World: How Riverboats, Railroads and Republicans transformed America by Thomas Crump. A bit ploddy, and full of stats, but a very job of doing what he said his intent was: tell about the world of Abraham Lincoln from his birth to the Civil War. He really did this well, in terms of demographics, politics and the social environment. I got out of it what I hoped to. Guess that is a pretty good result.
Now beginning an even bigger book, War on the Run by John F. Ross - this is a bio of Robert Rogers in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War - quite a controversial character, it seems.