How Long to Read One Secret Thing

By Sharon Olds

How Long Does it Take to Read One Secret Thing?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds

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

Description

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger—public and private—illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of...

How long is One Secret Thing?

One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds 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 One Secret Thing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read One Secret Thing aloud.

What Reading Level is One Secret Thing?

One Secret Thing 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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