I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Published 2012 · 105,875 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is I Remember You to read?
I Remember You scores 52 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain Icelandic, plainly translated.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, cool sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete throughout.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Two timelines whose connection is withheld.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The house and the child carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Little irony; the register is straight.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- The link resolves late.
- Structural complexity: 62 out of 100
- Two braided strands decades apart.
How I Remember You is regarded
I Remember You holds a literary regard score of 31 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.