Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life is 10th and 11th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
SMOG Index | Grade 9 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
The estimated word count of That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life is 179,800 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 12 hrs. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 19 hrs 59 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 40 mins.
That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life - 179,800 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 19 hrs 59 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 12 hrs |
Fast | 450 words/min | 6 hrs 40 mins |
for That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”