The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Published 1985 · 36,025 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Solace of Open Spaces to read?
The Solace of Open Spaces scores 48 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: 58 out of 100
- Precise, physical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Long, cadenced sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete landscape opening into reflection.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Light; short essays.
How The Solace of Open Spaces is regarded
The Solace of Open Spaces holds a literary regard score of 52 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.