How Long to Read Conversations with My Grandchildren

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations with My Grandchildren?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Conversations with My Grandchildren by Stephen Schultz

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

Description

"Conversations with My Grandchildren: Truths and Nothing But the Truth" tells the story of the rapid mental and physical deterioration of the author's 90 year old mother, a first generation American Jew brought up in a world of discrimination and hope, who, beginning with her response to an ad seeking "retread housewives" went on to author social studies textbooks for elementary and middle school children, which led to her never-ending quest to discern the "truths" of democracy, which "unsuccessfully" ended with her effort to be allowed to die with dignity and minimal pain from what she incorrectly self-diagnosed as a fatal hip fracture. The author's mother began this book, spending the last ten years of her life writing a book to her grandchildren regarding the challenges of growing up in a democracy, focusing particularly on her own history of facing and overcoming anti-Semitism in her neighborhood, at school and at work, and on her becoming part of a reshaping of the American educational system following the "panic" which ensued from the Soviet Union's winning the race to send life into space. The author finished the book, detailing a series of bizarre, semi-comic and in hindsight, inevitable events, which turned his mother from a fiercely independent woman to an invalid at a nursing home, resulting from what she described as her being "kidnapped by the ambulance driver", who happened to be driving by when she fell and broke her hip coming back from the library. The book, weaving in the author's mother's own writings, chronicles the author's increasing awareness of his own failure to recognize his mother's failing health over time, the unfortunate role that the healthcare system played in speeding up that deterioration, and the author's complete inability, despite his background in helping to mold the law regarding a "patient's right to die", to have any influence over the series of events which befell his mother. The book, self-deprecatingly described as the sequel to "Tuesdays with Morrie", gives a sometimes day by day, sometimes week by week or month to month account of the author's increasingly frustrating conversations with his mother, as well as his mother's quite successful conversations with her grandchildren, both told through her book, and told through the years.

How long is Conversations with My Grandchildren?

Conversations with My Grandchildren by Stephen Schultz is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations with My Grandchildren Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Conversations with My Grandchildren aloud.

What Reading Level is Conversations with My Grandchildren?

Conversations with My Grandchildren 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.

Where Can I Buy Conversations with My Grandchildren?

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