How long does it take to read I Never Promised You a Rose Garden?
Joanne Greenberg
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 282 pages, about 77,550 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
Subjects: Mental illness in fiction, Mentally ill, Psychotherapist and patient in fiction, Psychotherapist and patient, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
