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How long does it take to read Year of Magical Thinking, The?

Joan Didion, Barbara Caruso, Paula Bonet

Year of Magical Thinking, The by Joan Didion, Barbara Caruso, Paula Bonet takes about 4 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 10 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 227 pages, about 62,425 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 36 minutes

The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Grief, Journalists, biography, Loss (psychology), Mothers and daughters, Widows, Authors, biography

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