How Long to Read Vowels in the Air

How Long Does it Take to Read Vowels in the Air?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 29 minutes to read Vowels in the Air by Emmanuel Frank Opigo

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

Description

I was preparing my review of the book "Cross Over Journalist: Reporting the Niger Delta", written by the renowned journalist Kola Oredipe when I began to wonder yet again how many speeches and talks I had given over time. On this occasion the thought was not short-lived. The count from memory got into double digits and I got encouraged. But quite a few of the ones I remembered were in my crashed laptop, and that posed another challenge. Eventually, Lekan Oladipo, the Youth Corps member serving with me, helped retrieve all, including some surprising ones that had all but vanished from memory. In the end, I chose to include some essays and editorials as well, and even thoughts delivered in a sister genre.After some agonizing and experimenting (see "Have You Named Your Novel Yet?), I settled for "Vowels In The Air". I had earlier "settled" for another title. But then, when a meeting in which I was merely in attendance refused to end because some people would not give up on "Any Other Business", I began to "ride on random consonants and vowels in the air". I was irked at the time, but now I can only thank them. That was just the trigger I needed for mulling yet again over the title I was still not very satisfied with. I felt there should be a good poem out there to quote from. Then I remembered Jimmy Carter's On Using Words, and I knew I had my "name".I have always found it intriguing that all speech is based on just five vowels (a, e, i, o, u), the preponderant "random" consonants in the alphabet being merely the chords that give voice to these vowels. Thus a syllable is defined by the content of a vowel, the consonants merely serving as the crust of the pie.Letters, syllables, words, sentences... I am in complete agreement with Jimmy Carter on an abiding "vagueness" even as we seek "efficient words" to write or say what we mean.There are four parts in the book.* Part 1 covers essays and editorials that were written but not spoken.* Part 2 includes talks that were delivered to a live audience.* Part 3 is for those forlorn speeches that were written but not delivered for diverse reasons.* Part 4, a last minute inclusion on the persuasion that "blank verses matter" - just as do all poetic lines - is thus explained.What was I thinking trying to exclude the muse? Even after my 40-year old depositions in "Poetry: the Unenigmatic Enigma!Emmanuel Frank-Opigo

How long is Vowels in the Air?

Vowels in the Air by Emmanuel Frank Opigo is 146 pages long, and a total of 37,376 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Vowels in the Air Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Vowels in the Air aloud.

What Reading Level is Vowels in the Air?

Vowels in the Air 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.

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