How long does it take to read Remembering?
a novel
Remembering by Wendell Berry takes about 2 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 16 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 124 pages, about 34,100 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the course of a single day in 1976, the span of this elegiac novel, while in San Francisco attending a conference on agricultural technology, an emotionally troubled journalist wanders through pre-dawn streets reflecting on the early days of his marriage, on his parents and their love of the land. "Berry writes with grace and eloquence of the beauty in handed-down lives," declared PW.
Subjects: Fiction, City and town life in fiction, Kentucky in fiction, City and town life, Historical Fiction, Fiction, general
