Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories by Susan Minot
Published 2020 · 48,400 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories to read?
Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories scores 53 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
- Precise, unshowy vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Well-made sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete situations, reflectively handled.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate per story.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Varied narrators, several evasive.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Quiet irony about self-deception.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- Stories end on suspension.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- A collection.
How Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories is regarded
Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories holds a literary regard score of 36 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.