Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Published 2022
How hard is Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us to read?
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us 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: 52 out of 100
- Psychiatric vocabulary used carefully and explained.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clean New Yorker-style sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Case histories opening onto questions about what a diagnosis is.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Five long lives plus clinical and historical context.
How Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us is regarded
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us holds a literary regard score of 54 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.