How Long to Read Tell Me Another

How Long Does it Take to Read Tell Me Another?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 20 minutes to read Tell Me Another by Seamus Mac Aogáin

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

Description

The book opens with the writer outlining his reasons for leaving the place of his birth and boyhood. Thankfully, the leave-taking is prolonged as we are invited to travel back in time on a Superbroom, the ultimate 3D time machine, with Tess, the principal character, the writer himself and Annabel his first love.This is an age-old story told anew of village life, the wily and wild ways of its people and the strange goings on that happen everywhere but few know or want to know about them. The writer's gift is to mix history and topography with folklore and superstition, to lay bare with copious doses of humour the small town contradictions and intrigues and to poke fun at officialdom and official church. Nobody is spared the sharpness of his pen but all is rescued in the honesty, clarity and directness of his writing.From youth to maturity we follow Séamie into the magical world of Tess, his friend and mentor, who teaches him about the 'otherworld' and passes on such gems of wisdom and insight that we know there is a writer being formed and primed to fear nothing in the future. Tell me Another is a story that echoes Corkery's hidden Ireland and a plethora of other works such as 'Home Through the Fields' and 'The Farm by Lough Gur', albeit with darker tones reminiscent of The Valley of The Squinting Windows. Here too we learn about what it was like to grow up in a bygone time with its underworld in Lisnacreevagh, the ancestral home of the fairies and Leprechauns; Clonmacnoise and the monks (raised eyebrows here!), the majesty of the Shannon, the building of the canal that flows through the Midlands of Ireland today, the Black & Tans and the War of Independence, the Books of Ballynamanagh and Abbeyshrule; its drovers and cadgers, fishermen and poachers, shop keepers and publicans; its rivers and fields where youth learned to have its fling and where nature took its course. All this is here in Séamus Mac Aogáin's second book, which is a fine achievement because of the writer's gift for story-telling and his ability to describe events with atmospheric mastery such as is found in The Long-legged Thief, A Mad Dash to the Midwife and the last paragraph of the last chapter Tempus Fugit.There is merit also in its informative mixture of fact and fiction, its netting of the local vernacular "there's more adin in the cupboard than adout", its wry, matter of fact comment on everything he surveys and for the poems the writer has chosen to sprinkle the book with: Above all it is a love story that the writer experienced and still displays for his people and place. In the chapter The Visit, Tess predicts the new born baby's future to his mother: "he has the mark in his hand from another land and that triangle there is without compare. The child is blessed and he'll build his nest where the eagles rest far away from here."Séamus Mac Aogáin's heart and soul is in the right place. From where he currently lives he can observe his native land and his people with an eagle eye.

How long is Tell Me Another?

Tell Me Another by Seamus Mac Aogáin is 500 pages long, and a total of 125,000 words.

This makes it 169% the length of the average book. It also has 153% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tell Me Another Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 23 minutes to read Tell Me Another aloud.

What Reading Level is Tell Me Another?

Tell Me Another is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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