How Long to Read Falling While Sitting Down: Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Falling While Sitting Down: Stories?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 1 minute to read Falling While Sitting Down: Stories by Joshua Fields Millburn

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

Description

What does it mean to be human? How does a person find meaning in his or her life when everything's falling apart? Falling While Sitting Down is a short story collection about dealing with loneliness and discontent while balancing hope and despair. Ultimately, this book's stories deal with finding meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. The first four stories in this collection, written by Joshua Fields Millburn, discuss the struggles we face as we attempt to discover the meaning of our lives. "It's All So Quiet in Brooklyn," this collection's longest piece, follows a young but aging musician as he approaches thirty and finds himself coping with loneliness and depression in the aftermath of several life-changing events. He feels utterly alone, so he leaves Ohio to search for meaning in the most unlikely place: Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. "A Radically Attenuated History of Generation X" is, as the title suggests, an incredibly short story that attempts to summarize a particular ethos for an entire generation through the eyes of two characters on a dinner date. The title story, "Falling While Sitting Down," follows an unnamed boy through eighteen years of growing up in an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, showing the emotional muscles it takes to survive such circumstances. The collection's final story, "Loneliest Man," considers the loneliness and real-life costs of poor relationship decisions from the point of view of a particularly troubled man. As a bonus, three talented young writers--Colin Wright, Chase Night, and Mark D. Robertson--contributed to this collection, expanding the narrative beyond the scope of Joshua Fields Millburn's four stories. The seven stories in this collection vary drastically, but they all share one thing in common: each story is about what it's like to be a human being during incredibly complex times.

How long is Falling While Sitting Down: Stories?

Falling While Sitting Down: Stories by Joshua Fields Millburn is 59 pages long, and a total of 15,281 words.

This makes it 20% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Falling While Sitting Down: Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 23 minutes to read Falling While Sitting Down: Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Falling While Sitting Down: Stories?

Falling While Sitting Down: Stories is suitable for students ages 8 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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