How Long to Read It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life

How Long Does it Take to Read It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life by Judith Viorst

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

Description

Bringing together some of the best of Judith Viorst’s witty and perceptive poetry—and featuirng the illustrations from the original edition by John Alcorn—Viorst explores the all-too-true ironies and absurdities of being a woman in the modern world. Whether she’s finding herself or finding a sitter, contemplating her sex life as she rubs hormone night cream on her face, or wrestling with the contradiction of falling in love with a man her parents would actually approve of, Viorst transforms the familiar events of daily life into poems that make you laugh with recognition. Here is the young single girl leaving her parents’ home for life in the big city (“No I do not believe in free love/And yes I will be home for Sunday dinners”). Here is the aspiring bohemian with an expensive liberal arts education, getting coffee and taking dictation, “Hoping that someday someone will be impressed/With all I know.” Here is that married woman, coping with motherhood (“The tricycles are cluttering my foyer/The Pop Tart crumbs are sprinkled on my soul”) and fantasy affairs (“I could imagine cryptic conversations, clandestine martinis...and me explaining that long kisses clog my sinuses”) and all-too-real family reunions (“Four aunts in pain taking pills/One cousin in analysis taking notes”). And here she is at mid-life, wondering whether a woman who used to wear a “Ban the Bomb” button can find happiness being a person with a set of fondue forks, a fish poacher, and a wok. Every step of the way, It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life demonstrates once and for all that no one understands American women coming of age like Judith Viorst. *It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life is a reissue of the previous collection originally titled When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices.

How long is It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life?

It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life by Judith Viorst is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life aloud.

What Reading Level is It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life?

It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life 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.

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