How long does it take to read Yo, Julia?
Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo takes about 12 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 698 pages, about 191,950 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is about the Roman Empress Julia Domna, wife of the Emperor Severus Septimius (146 CE to 211 CE), and mother of the Emperor Caracalla. Her historic lifetime achievements as an administrator and patron of learning and science are well documented here. The novel also paints a historically accurate picture of Rome in the Year of the Five Emperors (Commodus, Pertinax, Julianus, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus), and in particular, recounts the three major battles fought by Severus - the Battle of Issues against Pescennius Niger, then the Siege of Byzantium, which remained loyal to Niger even after his death, and finally the Battle of Lugdunum (modern Lyons, in France) against Clodius Albinus. An excellent read, but there is no English translation as yet.
Subjects: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Empresses, History
