Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Published 2022 · 83,600 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality to read?

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 42 out of 100
Accessible, with sexuality-studies terms.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Clear, brisk sentences.
Abstraction: 48 out of 100
History and research toward a definitional argument.
Information density: 52 out of 100
Wide-ranging but light per page.

How Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is regarded

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality holds a literary regard score of 33 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.

About the author

Julia Shaw