How Long to Read Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories by Brenna Bold

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

Description

William Shakespeare taught us that love is a many splendored thing. Love and romantic involvement-so invigorating, so essential to our lives and our health-comes in many varieties. None more true, none less true, all valid in their own way. This volume celebrates that diversity of love-love achieved, love lost, love persevering. These stories are not formula fiction; they are not predictable. Boy does not always meet girl, boy and girl do not always immediately fall in love, and they do not always live happily ever after. Instead, these are stories of love as we actually experience it-emerging, developing, faltering, but often enduring. In these stories of romance in expected and unexpected places, our readers will hear the unmistakable echoes of their own past and present loves. Perhaps the most human of our human oddities is our tendency to tumble into enchantment. We become enamored not by choice, but by compulsion. The first three stories in our collection explore some of the ways we unexpectedly stumble into a lasting love. Through its mastery of classic romantic imagery and themes, Brenna Bold's "Blue Eyes" emerges the reader in beautiful moon-lit nights along the Danube River where a lovely young lady meets the blue-eyed man of her private longings. Donna Bruck's "What Was I Thinking?" moves over hundred years back in time and half way around the globe to the western United States of the nineteenth century, where a mail order bride travels over hill and dell to meet the mystery man who will be hers until death do them part. In "Falling," Avis Yarbrough uses rich metaphorical language to explore the extraordinary experience of allowing oneself to "fall" in love. If love were more controllable and predictable, it would probably also be more routine and more boring. Love overtakes us in awkward places and at inconvenient times. The next three stories in our collection celebrate the awkwardness of love's invasions into our lives. Patricia Florio's "In the Secret Service" narrates the purity of a May/September romance between quite unlikely candidates; Troy Cantrell's "City Dance" imagines a young man's fantastical reorientation by love; and Kevin Dehan's "Cool Rescue" watches an unusual love overtake a man and woman who have been separated by decades of life's seemingly random choices. Louie Centanni's "Landing" and Ian Pike's "Treasures" each silently observes a lonely young man as he discovers and begins wooing the woman of his dreams. Each young man shares a secret treasure-a piece of his heart previously known to only him-with the woman for whom he pines. These symbols of vulnerability and self-disclosure open the characters to new romantic possibilities. Patricia Crandall's "The Pink Victorian Lady" and Tom Stiner's "If I'm Not Here When You Get Back, Call Me" recount stories of more seasoned love. Crandall provides a classic tale of love's ability to forgive, to heal, and to recover; Stiner provides a narrative of love's ability to mend, to gather new strength, and to redirect. These stories of love under fire, of love on trial, strike an empathetic note even in the midst of the mistrust and distress of previously traumatized relationships. As always, each of these stories has won our highly competitive monthly short story contest. We continue to be delighted to bring these emerging new authors to the attention of the reading public.

How long is Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories?

Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories by Brenna Bold is 108 pages long, and a total of 27,864 words.

This makes it 36% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories?

Blue Eyes and Other Romantic Short Stories is suitable for students ages 10 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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