How long does it take to read A Bird in the House?
A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence takes about 3 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 207 pages, about 56,925 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Bird in the House is a series of eight interconnected short stories narrated by Vanessa MacLeod as she matures from a child at age ten into a young woman at age twenty. Wise for her years, Vanessa reveals much about the adult world in which she lives.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), Canada, fiction, Fiction, general
