You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney

Published 2025 · 288 pages · 79,200 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip to read?

You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip scores 39 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: 40 out of 100
Plain, conversational vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
Short, funny sentences.
Abstraction: 48 out of 100
Gossip treated as a social question.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Light per essay.

How You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip is regarded

You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip holds a literary regard score of 34 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

Kelsey McKinney