How Long to Read Memory Links

How Long Does it Take to Read Memory Links?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Memory Links by William F. Van Wert

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

Description

Van Wert designates every other essay in Memory Links as a "theme" essay. In these essays he affirms the importance of neighborhoods; contemplates homesickness and the "empty nest"; recollects his experiences in Vietnam; remembers how, as father of three small boys, he mined his own youthful experiences for bedtime storytelling; and shows that, in a writer's eye, even phone books, junk mail, and income tax returns can yield rich narrative possibilities. The writings reveal how even the commonplace in our lives can be multilayered and richly evocative. The book's title essay, for instance, takes the golf course as its setting: it is at once a boyhood hunting ground for fishing worms, a site for a highschool student's romantic reenactment of the sled crash in Ethan Frome, a common ground between a grown son and his aging father, and a refuge from career pressures and the cares of middle age. Alternating with the theme essays are "state-name" essays, bearing such titles as "Georgia," "Texas," and "Indiana." They are neither travelogues nor profiles of places, but meditations on the changing nature of Van Wert's attachments to people whose lives are rooted in those locales. From the cornfields of a Nebraska visited only through a long-distance phone friendship to the birch-bordered lake of Michigan boyhood summers, Van Wert ranges across memories of his children, parents, in-laws, friends, and through all of them, a younger self. In the final four essays, the alternating stops. There are two theme essays, back-to-back, each the opposite of the other: homesickness versus Vietnam. They are followed by two state-name essays, "Michigan" and "Indiana," in which the sons are physically present, and a sense of home emerges.

How long is Memory Links?

Memory Links by William F. Van Wert is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Memory Links Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Memory Links aloud.

What Reading Level is Memory Links?

Memory Links 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.

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