How long does it take to read What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours?
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi takes about 6 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 331 pages, about 91,025 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
Subjects: Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Locks and keys, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Libraries
