How long does it take to read The Shining Years?
The Shining Years by Emilie Loring takes about 4 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 226 pages, about 62,150 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is all about an aspiring author who is rejected and decides to make the person who rejected her script suitably apologetic. They encounter each other in a small town where a corrupt person wants to shut down the local paper if it does not support his ambitions
Subjects: Fiction, Romance