How long does it take to read Waiting to Exhale?
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 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 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Four African American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps them face the middle of their lives as single women.
Subjects: African American men, Friendship, African American women, Fiction, Female friendship, Love stories
