How long does it take to read Now?
Now by Morris Gleitzman takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Once
About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 184 pages, about 50,600 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 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
Subjects: Jews, Friendship, Juvenile fiction, Jewish children, History, Children's fiction
