Reading Level
What is the reading level of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body is 8th and 9th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
4 hrs 41 mins
How long to read Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body?
The estimated word count of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body is 70,215 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 41 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 49 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 37 mins.
| Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body - 70,215 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 7 hrs 49 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 41 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 37 mins |
- Authors
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Rebekah Taussig
More about Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
70,215 words
Word Count
for Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
256 pages
Pages
7 hours and 33 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.