How long does it take to read Smoke Gets in Your Eyes?
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty takes about 5 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 280 pages, about 77,000 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
Subjects: Undertakers and undertaking, Biography, Funeral homes, Anecdotes, Servicios funerarios, Biografía
