What Royar Read: Mid-Summer

This summer has kind of been the summer of terrible books. While I still have a stack 10 high on my nightstand waiting for me to try, the ones thus far have been quite subpar.

Wasn't terrible, but I really had to push myself through this one. The ending was a little cliche and the diction got on my nerves towards the middle end.

The only Nicholas Sparks book I hadn't read, so now I've read them all!

I've started reading Brad Thor this summer and I really like the Scot Harvath series. They're quick reads and great beach books!

One of the more disappointing books I've read. Had great promise but a terrible ending

Kind of a weird book but I just really liked it for some reason and it was the fastest book I've read all summer.

LOVED this! Will definitely follow Jim Tressel a little more this season

Currently Reading:

Quite the beach reads, right?

What have you read this summer?

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What Royar Read: April

Loved this book! Really easy to read with great advice.

Loved this book so much. A really weird plot, but it says so much about humanity and about people as a whole.

Meh. It was interesting, but it was kind of boring.

I got this while I was in India and finally read it. It was interesting.

I liked the first few chapters but it got old and repetitive pretty quickly. Glad I read it though.

Just reading this to finish the series, and they're really good beach books!

Can't even talk about this book. I cried at the end of it, which has never happened before with a book. By far the best book I've ever read.

Currently Reading: Going after Cacciato and Ghost Wars

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Reading

I've always gotten a lot of questions about how/why I read so much, and better late than never right?

So I've always loved to read and started reading pretty early, and I've just never remembered not reading. As I've gotten older, the books have simply gotten longer. I remember I when I read the The Thorn Birds for the first time, as well as Gone With The Wind and felt incredibly accomplished. I love long books because they tell great stories and I get lost in them so much more easily, but short books can do that too. Fiction is obviously my favorite, but I really like psychological and historical/military non fiction books as well, and of course biographies. My favorite authors include Pat Conroy, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steve Coll, Mary Kay Andrews, Emily Giffin, Jodi Picoult, Corban Addison and Curtis Sittenfeld.

I always challenge myself to read 150 books a year, and for the past two years I've come up short. I think I might be able to do it this year, and right now I'm 8 books behind on my challenge, but I'm not too worried yet. I try to read for 45 minutes or an hour each day, because it's relaxing to me and I try to not stare at a screen right before I go to sleep. 

If I really don't like a book, I won't finish it. I try to make it at least 50 pages, but there are too many good books in the world to waste time on ones that really don't interest you. 

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What Royar Read: March

SO GOOD! Highly Recommend

A bunch of editorials in a book. I enjoyed it.

Not that great. Kind of skimmed it.

Not bad, but not life changing

Pretty good. Like the 10,000 hours chapter

Good! I've got one more Nicholas Sparks to read!

Very good. All girls should read this.

Interesting to read after taking psychology

So Quirky. So refreshing. Loved it.

LOVED.

Really really good. I want to know more about finance now.

Nothing I didn't know, but good nonetheless

What did you read in March?

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What Royar Read: February

The Awakening

The Bin Ladens

The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution

Henna For The Broken Hearted

What did you read this month?

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What Royar Read: January

There's Something About St. Tropez - Still can't decide wether I liked it or not.

The Rapture of Canaan - Super easy read, interesting story line.

Into The Wild - Skimmed most of it, but interesting.

The Best Advice I Ever Got - LOVE! Definitely going to buy this in hardcover and take it with me to college

Night Road - Predictable story line, but good.

Hamlet - No. Just no.

SEAL! - This has been in my stack of books from speech research that I never got around to reading, and I enjoyed it.

What did you read this month?

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What Royar Read: December

The Double Bind

Graceful

Four Blondes

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted

Love Story

Out of all the books that I read in December, The Double Bind was by far my favorite. It took me over a month to read it, but it was so worth it in the end! It's a mystery, has a tie-in with The Great Gatsby, and is so amazing. 

Did you read anything great this month?

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

WRR: October

So I may or may not have read only two books during the whole month of October (Stress much?)

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I loved this book, then hated this book, then loved it, then hated Nick, then hated Amy. But in the end it was a great book, and definitely a page turner!

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I loved this book! It's such a sad story, but it has a great plot. I had seen the movie before reading it, but the book beats the movie!

Here's what I'm reading right now!

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

What Royar Read: September

Unfortunately, most of my reading this month was spent on school books (Struggling Giant) and speech research, so I hope that October will bring plenty of new 'free' reads!

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

What Royar Read: Summer 2012

This summer I read a lot, I must say! Among my favorites were: Sorority Sisters, Glamour, Lone Survivor, and The Secret Life of Bees! To see all of my summer reading books, click here!

What did you read this summer?

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

What Royar Read: March

I didn't get to read as much as I wanted to in March, but I still read some awesome books!

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Loved this book! Definitely a very long read (it's 750 pages!) but worth it. Quite predictable at times.

If You Have To Cry, Go Outside - What a great woman, and a great story. There are some awesome tips in this book.

Eighteen Acres - Light read, extremely political, but a fresh storyline.

The Great Gatsby - So, so, so in love with this book. Words can't describe how I feel about this one.

The Most Beautiful Walk In The World - Not as great as I thought it would be.

What have you read lately?

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}