It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read East Wind Melts the Ice by Liza Dalby
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"To read East Wind Melts the Ice is to slip into a time stream that is both as long and sinuous as history and as ephemeral as the present moment. Drawing inspiration from the thousand year old history of Japanese poetic diaries, and form from the ancient Chinese almanac that she uses to contain her musings, Liza Dalby has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of translating the sensibility of the Heian Court of 11th century Japan into the context of contemporary America. The result is a stunning chronicle of the beauty of time passing and an evocation of the transient and whimsical...
East Wind Melts the Ice by Liza Dalby is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read East Wind Melts the Ice aloud.
East Wind Melts the Ice is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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