How long does it take to read A New Song?
A New Song by Jan Karon takes about 8 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of The Mitford Years
Previous: A Light in the Window
About 8 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 476 pages, about 130,900 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires. However, new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable characters: a church organist with a mysterious past, a lovelorn bachelor placing personal ads, a mother battling paralyzing depression. They also find that Mitford is never far away when circumstances "back home" keep their phone ringing off the hook. In this fifth novel of the beloved series, fans old and new will discover that a trip to Mitford and Whitecap is twice as good for the soul.
Subjects: Fiction, North carolina, fiction, Clergy, fiction, Fiction, religious
