How long does it take to read Better Than the Movies?
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2021. 368 pages, about 101,200 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Liz Buxbaum loves romantic comedies, which tie her to her late mother, a screenwriter who died when Liz was a child. In her final year of high school, she wants to live out those movie fantasies. Her longtime crush, Michael, has just returned to town, and she hopes to get him to notice her so she can ask him to the prom. To manage this, she enlists her next-door neighbor Wes Bennet, a new friend of Michael's, to pretend he is interested in her, even though his childhood pranks have always annoyed her.
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Subjects: Children's fiction, Contemporary romance, teen fiction, young adult fiction, coming-of-age, first love
