How long does it take to read A Gathering of Days?
a New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos
A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1979. 144 pages, about 39,600 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Subjects: Diaries, Newbery Medal, Juvenile fiction, Diaries in fiction, Fiction, New Hampshire in fiction
