It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read Our Best Defense by David O'Connell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
IN OUR BEST DEFENSE, David O'Connell brings tenderness and a wry attention to his exploration of fatherhood and childhood, movies and schoolrooms, ancient Rome and rainforests. While the perils of our times--including climate change, school violence, and war--are never far from sight, these poems uncover ways to celebrate this moment, even as they acknowledge victory remains far from certain. "These wonderful poems combine intellect and feeling, family life and history and are the "best defense" against the sleep of contemporary life in which people live vicariously through the famous, refuse...
Our Best Defense by David O'Connell is 81 pages long, and a total of 20,331 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read Our Best Defense aloud.
Our Best Defense is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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