How Long to Read Ninety

How Long Does it Take to Read Ninety?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read Ninety by Audrey B. Parker

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

Description

When Audrey Parker first finished her book, she thought of it as a memoir. Then she realized it was not even something of a memoir. Many of the memories of her early years are hooked up to the here and now such as the ease of today´s dress code, compared to the days when she was concerned with high fashion. It was then expected that hat, shoes, gloves, and purse matched. If they did not, you did not join the Easter parade. The author was fortunate to experience miles of travel before World War II. During those years the travel agents cajoled you into thinking, "Getting there was half the fun." They may well have been right. The author expresses an indelible memory of the excitement created by the enthusiasm in the train conductor´s shout "All Aboard!" Everyone was awed by the news of the first successful trip of the Atlantic Clipper. Parker has never forgotten the beauty of the rolling gray seas on the long sail home across the Atlantic from England. Tourism was at a much slower pace in pre- and early post-World War II years. In the book Parker mentions touching the feet of Michelangelo´s great "Pieta" in Rome. Now it is well protected from the press of too many people. She writes that at Monticello it was a treat to be able to drive to the front steps where she was welcomed by a volunteer docent, who graciously gave her a personal tour. Today one waits in line to be driven by bus up the mountain to the handsome edifice. Frequent reference is made to events before she was born or which she was too young to remember, but which, because of their impact upon her parents, became her "emotional birthmarks." Her grandmother carried her infant father across the Brooklyn Bridge the year of its opening. "I have read and reread the dramatic story of the building of that famous structure, and on its centenary in 1983 could not resist walking across from the Manhattan to the Brooklyn side. I admit disappointment. Roaring twentieth-century traffic knocked out of my head any fanciful re-enactment of my father´s past." When Parker studied the subject of World War I in grammar school, she had the impression it had all happened in the long ago and far away. When writing of the flu epidemic of 1918, she recalls not the death of her Aunt Ella but the pain experienced by her mother on the loss of a very dear friend. The death toll was 3% of the world´s population, but for mother it was more than a matter of statistics. The author will tell you she had the most fun with the many pages devoted to her weekly visits to her contemporary at a retirement home. Her friend and she were both in their seventies at that time. He suffered severe instability. Since he was a tall gentleman of no mean proportions, danger of his toppling on a caregiver, if he stayed at home, was too great to consider. Retirement-home care was the only option. She delighted in the relationship between her friend and another resident, ninety-four-year-old Mabel. It amused her that Mabel was extremely jealous of other female residents but seemed not to care at all that Ted always expressed pleasure at seeing Parker. The author writes that she has a distinct way of looking at days of the week, that each has its own "special feel. Monday, a fresh beginning;--Thursday, the weekend is creeping up; --Sunday, a syrupy day, that leads to an enervating laziness." She thinks baby boomers should come up with a term less "dull, prim, and pompous than ´senior-citizen.´" She resents being addressed by her given name by every Tom, Dick and Harry. She does enjoy hearing children of her southern friends refer to her as Miz Audrey. That favorite nieces and nephews and children of friends should be capable of accumulating years, does not always register in the senior-citizen psyche. For the author it is almost incomprehensible that her nephew could now be sixty-thre

How long is Ninety?

Ninety by Audrey B. Parker is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ninety Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read Ninety aloud.

What Reading Level is Ninety?

Ninety is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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