How long does it take to read Don't Blame the Music?
Don't Blame the Music by Caroline B. Cooney takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 171 pages, about 47,025 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young adult novel. Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock singer with a bitter grudge against the family.
Subjects: Fiction, Emotional problems, Family problems, Sisters, High schools, Schools
