Walking on the Ceiling by Ayşegül Savaş
Published 2019 · 61,600 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Walking on the Ceiling to read?
Walking on the Ceiling scores 54 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: 48 out of 100
- Plain, careful vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, quiet sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Concrete cities held at a reflective distance.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator withholding the loss that drives her.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Istanbul and the novel-within carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Distance between what she tells and what she avoids.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- The loss is only partly disclosed.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- Fragments moving between cities and years.
How Walking on the Ceiling is regarded
Walking on the Ceiling holds a literary regard score of 33 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.