How long does it take to read A Tale for the Time Being?
Ruth L. Ozeki, 田中文
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L. Ozeki, 田中文 takes about 8 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 438 pages, about 120,450 words. Written for young adults.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)
Subjects: Women authors, Teenage girls, Buddhist nuns, Fiction, FICTION / Literary, Literary
