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How long does it take to read Be Buried in the Rain?

Barbara Michaels

Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels takes about 6 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 2 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1985. 329 pages, about 90,475 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 2 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 46 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch's eyes—yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place. But her hope—and her life—are seriously threatened by a nightmare reborn...and by the grim discovery on the lonely road to Maidenwood of the earth-browned skeletons of a mother and child.

Subjects: Drama, Fiction, Excavations (Archaeology), Plantations, Fiction, gothic, History

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