Reading Level
What is the reading level of Letters of Note: Mothers?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Letters of Note: Mothers is 9th and 10th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Letters of Note: Mothers
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 13 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 12 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 9 |
Reading Time
2 hrs 29 mins
How long to read Letters of Note: Mothers?
The estimated word count of Letters of Note: Mothers is 37,200 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 2 hrs 29 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 8 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 1 hrs 23 mins.
| Letters of Note: Mothers - 37,200 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 4 hrs 8 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 2 hrs 29 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 1 hrs 23 mins |
- Authors
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Shaun Usher
More about Letters of Note: Mothers
37,200 words
Word Count
for Letters of Note: Mothers
176 pages
Pages
4 hours
Audiobook length
Description
A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.A young Egyptian girl mourns her mother's death in the fourth century AD. Melissa Rivers lovingly chides her mother, Joan, for treating her house like a hotel and taking her thirteen-year-old son to see Last Tango in Paris. Anne Sexton gives her daughter the advice to live life to the hilt, and be your own woman. In a letter to her teenage daughter, Caitlin Moran explains that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts. The film Ladybird inspires journalist Hannah Woodhead to write an emotional letter to her mother. While at seminary, Martin Luther King Jr. writes that he has "the best mother in the world." These thirty letters capture the endless range of feelings that comes with being or having a mother. Includes letters from E.B. White, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Laura Dern, Baya Hocine, Louisa May Alcott, Wallac Stegner, and more.