How long does it take to read Symptoms of Being Human?
Jeff Garvin
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 352 pages, about 96,800 words. Written for young adults.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Riley is a gender fluid teen living with anxiety. They're at a new school just trying to fit in when they start a blog under the name Alix. They write about what their gender means to them and the blog quickly gains popularity. However, everything starts crashing down on Riley when someone starts sending them anonymous messages threatening to out their true identity.
Subjects: teen, blog, anxiety, lgbt, young adult, fiction
