Summer Roundup 2009

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As I'm beginning another semester, it's time for another roundup!

Books I read over the summer:

• Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
• The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
• Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
• Empire of Ivy by Novik
• Victory of Eagles by Novik
• Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
• Royal Assassin by Hobb
• Assassin's Quest by Hobb
• And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander

That's an awfully short list for the whole summer! Last year's list was over three times as long. Then again, I didn't have as much time as I usually would during the summer to read, and I may be forgetting a book or two.


Movies watched in theaters this summer:

• Star Wars
• 500 Days of Summer

Live shows I saw this summer:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream put on by the New York City Ballet Company
• Tin Pan Alley Rag, an Off-Broadway show
• The Pajama Game put on by a local 4th-8th grade theater company
• West Side Story put on by a local theater company
• The Merchant of Venice put on by Shakespeare Orange County

Other things I did this summer:

• Lazed around
• Worked a bit for my mom
• Got to meet people from sounis and athanarel !
• Visited my grandma
• Went to New York for a week-long History Scholars program focusing on Abraham Lincoln
• Had an absolute blast working at a summer camp for seven weeks (eight if you include orientation)
• Had an all-too-short reunion with some good friends I met while in Spain last fall, who flew in from as far as Spain to be there
• Spent almost two weeks with my family in beautiful Hawaii (Oahu and Maui)
• Celebrated my 21st birthday early with family, and got a GPS unit for my car from my aunts, a blender and a George Foreman Grill from my parents, and a movie and a shirt from my sister Stephanie

All in all, it's not nearly as impressive a list as last summer's. Still, the summer it summarizes was one of the best of my life!