It takes the average reader 2 hours and 11 minutes to read Sound by Bella Bathurst
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...' For twelve years, Bella Bathurst was deaf. She missed the punchlines and the jokes, avoided busy restaurants and raucous parties, and grew her hair long to cover hearing aids. But then, twelve years later, pioneering surgery on her ears gave her the chance to hear again. Sound is the extraordinary story of Bella's journey into deafness and back to hearing. Mixing memoir with...
Sound by Bella Bathurst is 131 pages long, and a total of 32,881 words.
This makes it 44% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 59 minutes to read Sound aloud.
Sound is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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