How long does it take to read Waking the Moon?
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand takes about 8 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 451 pages, about 124,025 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, where she meets the mysterious Angelica and falls in love with the strange and beautiful Oliver. She gets tangled up in sinister, supernatural events involving a secret society and the awakening of an ancient, malevolent goddess. According to the afterword for the short story "The Bacchae", found in the collection Last Summer At Mars Hill is another take on ancient Greek myth that prefigures this book. They both involve murderous cults of women. Author Elizabeth Hand has said that she wanted to show that ancient goddess cultures were not all as peaceful and idyllic as we tend to think
Subjects: Fiction, LGBTQ gender identity, LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Fiction, horror, Washington (d.c.), fiction
