How long does it take to read What I Was?
What I Was by Meg Rosoff takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 224 pages, about 61,600 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.
Subjects: Fiction, Coming of age, Boarding schools, Schools, Schoolboys, Friendship
