How long does it take to read Listening Woman?
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman takes about 5 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 289 pages, about 79,475 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn's investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.
Subjects: Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Indian reservation police, Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character), Mystery
