How long does it take to read Pulse Of The Heartland?
Pulse Of The Heartland by Melinda Cross takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 189 pages, about 51,975 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Emily was ready for a change. When her friends had left for college and city life, she'd stayed behind to nurse her mother. Now, at twenty-seven, she was seriously considering selling her florist's shop and leaving the small Minnesota farming community. And that's when Nick Simon came home. Nick came for his grandfather's funeral--but quickly decided to stick around and break down Emily's stoical reserve. Nick drove her crazy, but there seemed to be no way to get rid of him. Nor could Emily convince the town they weren't really having a torrid affair! A very good old-school romance between stoically reserved Emily and irrepressible Nick Simon. Beautiful descriptions of life in a rural community of a midwestern American town. Elements of nature, life, love and strength come together seamlessly in this well-woven tale. The man-woman dynamic may seem anachronistic in today's times, but there are still some universal lessons to draw from it.
Subjects: American breadbasket, farming, flowers, old-fashioned romance, Fiction, general
