How Long to Read Be Sure to Close Your Eyes

How Long Does it Take to Read Be Sure to Close Your Eyes?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Be Sure to Close Your Eyes by Hugh Hood

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The year is 1908, and Mary-Beth Sleaford is a five-year-old girl living in the countryside just north of Toronto. She etches an angel into a tower that her father, Professor John Sleaford, is building, one of many he will erect over the next eighteen years. Eventually Mary-Beth and her family move west to Saskatchewan, but one day, as an adult, she returns to the ruin of that first tower and discovers that her angel is almost as bright as the day she carved it with a piece of brick. Hood's heroine, the artist Mary-Beth Sleaford, is a true representative of her age. She embodies the English-Canadian character Ñreticent and caught between American exuberance and British reserve. The three men in her life are also facets of the greater Canadian psyche. Her father is an eccentric inventor imbued with the spirit of Americanism. Petter Arnesson, her first fiancŽ, is a Prairie jazz cornetist with overwhelming artistic ambition tempered with the necessary practicality of the immigrant. And finally Earl Codrington, the pragmatist who becomes her husband, is a small-town Ontario businessman with an optimistic eye on the future.

How long is Be Sure to Close Your Eyes?

Be Sure to Close Your Eyes by Hugh Hood is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Be Sure to Close Your Eyes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Be Sure to Close Your Eyes aloud.

What Reading Level is Be Sure to Close Your Eyes?

Be Sure to Close Your Eyes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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