All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
Published 2023 · 83,600 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is All-Night Pharmacy to read?
All-Night Pharmacy scores 55 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Plain contemporary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, sharp sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete, with a strong psychological undertow.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator whose account of her sister keeps shifting.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The pharmacy and the psychic carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Distance between her self-account and her dependence.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- The sister is never explained.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Linear with gaps.
How All-Night Pharmacy is regarded
All-Night Pharmacy holds a literary regard score of 30 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.