All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T.C. Oakes-Monger
Published 2023 · 39,600 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Memoir & Autobiography, Young Adult, Essays & Criticism
How hard is All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy to read?
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy scores 14 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 22 out of 100
- The collection is aimed at a young adult and general audience, and it uses plain, warm contemporary language in short vignettes. It sits near the simple end, close to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret in register.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Brief snapshot pieces and a 144-page illustrated format point to short, direct sentences. Like the diary-style prose of The Diary of a Young Girl, the syntax asks little of the reader.
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- The book builds on lived moments and personal experience of being trans, organised by the seasons. It stays concrete and close to daily life, much like It Ends with Us.
- Information density: 20 out of 100
- At roughly 39,600 words spread across illustrated vignettes, the pace is light and each piece stands alone. Nothing demands cross-referencing, so it reads lighter than Beach Read.
How All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy is regarded
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy holds a literary regard score of 20 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.
Where the story of All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy takes place
- United Kingdom, present day (2020 to 2023), the main setting