Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

Published 2011 · 222 pages · 50,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Satire & Humor

How hard is Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? to read?

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 15 out of 100
Casual, conversational vocabulary throughout.
Sentence structure: 15 out of 100
Abstraction: 12 out of 100
Entirely concrete. Personal anecdotes and observations.
Information density: 25 out of 100
Light and breezy. Designed for quick, fun reading.
Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
Loosely organized essays. No complex structure.
Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
Observational comedy. No symbolic layering.
Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
Self-deprecating humor that is sharper than it pretends to be.
Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
Each essay is a quick, complete comic piece.
Structural complexity: 12 out of 100
Independent short essays. Very simple organization.

How Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is regarded

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 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.

About the author

Mindy Kaling