How long does it take to read Winter Hours?
Winter Hours by Mary Oliver takes about 2 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours
An evening's read
First published 1999. 109 pages, about 29,975 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and everything else."
Subjects: American essays, American poetry
