How long does it take to read Maya's Notebook?
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende takes about 8 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 446 pages, about 122,650 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. After the death of her grandfather, teenager Maya falls into depression, drugs, and crime, until her stay on a remote Chilean island helps her learn what she truly values in life. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, drug use, and violence.
Subjects: Diaries, Drug addiction, Fiction, Self-realization in women, Young women, Authorship
