It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read The Reading List by Leslie Shimotakahara
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Leslie Shimotakahara, a young, disenchanted English professor, struggles to revive her childhood love of reading. Returning home to rethink her life, she bonds with her father Jack over discussions about the lives, loves and works of the novelists on their shared reading list a€" Wharton, Joyce, Woolf and Atwood, to name a few. But when their conversations about literature unearth some heartbreaking, deeply buried family secrets surrounding Jacka€(TM)s own childhood a€" growing up Japanese-Canadian in the aftermath of World War II a€" Lesliea€(TM)s world is changed forever. Could discovering the truth about her fathera€(TM)s past hold the key to her finally being happy in love, life and career? "The Reading List" reveals how literature can sometimes help us expose our past, understand our loved ones and point us toward our future.
The Reading List by Leslie Shimotakahara is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.
This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read The Reading List aloud.
The Reading List is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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