How Long to Read Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

How Long Does it Take to Read Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood by Anne Enright

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

Description

A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick "Much of the book is astonishingly funny; the rest would break your heart." —Colm Tóibín Anne Enright is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation. The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and her follow-up novel, The Forgotten Waltz, garnered universal praise for her luminous language and deep insight into relationships. Now, in Making Babies, Enright offers a new kind of memoir: an unapologetic look at the very personal experience of becoming a mother. With a refreshing no-nonsense attitude, Enright opens up about the birth and first two years of her children’s lives. Enright was married for eighteen years before she and her husband Martin, a playwright, decided to have children. Already a confident, successful writer, Enright continued to work in her native Ireland after each of her two babies was born. While each baby slept, those first two years of life, Enright wrote, in dispatches, about the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of motherhood. Here, unfiltered and irreverent, are Enright’s keen reactions to the pains of pregnancy, the joys of breast milk, and the all-too-common pressures to be the “perfect” parent. Supremely observant and endlessly quizzical, Enright is never saccharine, always witty, but also deeply loving. Already a bestseller in the UK, Making Babies brings Enright’s autobiographical writing to American readers for the first time. Tender and candid, it captures beautifully just what it’s like for a working woman to become a mother. The result is a moving chronicle of parenthood from one of the most distinctive and gifted authors writing today.

How long is Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood?

Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood by Anne Enright is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood aloud.

What Reading Level is Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood?

Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood is suitable for students ages 12 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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