How Long to Read Shelby's Lady

How Long Does it Take to Read Shelby's Lady?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read Shelby's Lady by Shelby Stephenson

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

Description

A freezing cold winter day, a disemboweled 250-pound hog hangs over a vat of hot water in the farmyard. The carcass will be scalded and scraped clean. A few neighbors have come to help and the women are already cleaning the chitterlings that will encase the sausage made from meat scraps. Making sausage was my favorite part of the day. After the meat has been ground, then comes the seasoning: salt, red pepper, and sage from a nearby bush. The women mix it, then fry up a few "try pieces." "Needs more salt," one woman will say. "More pepper," says another. "You need a little more heat in there." The samples are passed around to get everyone's opinion - even a child's if I'm lucky because with so much going on, I've long since run off my lunch. In Shelby's Lady: The Hog Poems, Shelby Stephenson has captured all the hard and often dirty work that goes into prepping and preserving a slaughtered pig before refrigerators were common. I remember salting the hams, drying the links of sausage or rendering the fat for lard. Shelby shows us again a way of life that has almost completely disappeared. -Margaret Maron, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

How long is Shelby's Lady?

Shelby's Lady by Shelby Stephenson is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shelby's Lady Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Shelby's Lady aloud.

What Reading Level is Shelby's Lady?

Shelby's Lady 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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