How long does it take to read We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live?
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion takes about 20 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 55 minutes
A long haul
First published 2006. 1,141 pages, about 313,775 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions - on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others - show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream."--BOOK JACKET
Subjects: Literature, collections
