How long does it take to read Jemima J?
A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Jane Green
Jemima J by Jane Green takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A novel about attraction, obsession and the meaning of true love.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, California, fiction, Internet, fiction, Single women, fiction
