Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
Published 2015 · 52,800 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget to read?
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget scores 37 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
- Plain, funny, colloquial.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Short punchy sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete recollection with light reflection.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Episodic.
How Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget is regarded
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget holds a literary regard score of 34 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.