How long does it take to read Shattered Dreams?
Irene Spencer
Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Irene Spencer did as she felt Godcommanded in marrying herbrother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becominghis second wife. When thegovernment raided the fundamentalist, polygamousMormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,Irene and her family fled toVerlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.They lived in squalor and desolateconditions in the Mexican desertwith Verlan's six brothers, one sister,and numerous wives and children.Readers will be appalled andastonished, but most amazingly,greatly inspired. Irene's dramaticstory reveals how far religion canbe stretched and abused and how one woman and herchildren found their way out, into truth and redemption.
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Polygamy, Mormon fundamentalism, Mormon families, Utah, social conditions
