How long does it take to read Reasons to Live?
stories
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel takes about 2 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 22 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1985. 129 pages, about 35,475 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
