The Burning lights a fire in you - one that makes you want to fight for change and ignite sparks in others so the fire spreads and spreads. This is a book teen girls NEED to read.’ Questi argomenti, ammetto, potevano essere trattati meglio e con maggiore approfondimento da parte dell’autrice, che ha dedicato poco tempo ad alcuni aspetti fondamentali della vicenda. Proprio questo mi ha fatto storcere il naso, perché Anna è una vittima recidiva che non denuncia, che lascia che le venga fatto ciò che le viene fatto, subisce e non si ribella. Ma per quanto voglia fare finta di non sentire i bisbigli e le frasi cattive che le vengono lanciate a scuola mentre cammina per i corridoi, per quanto finga di non importarsene dell’abbandono delle sue due nuove amiche, per quanto cerchi di concentrarsi sulla storia di Maggie, Anna deve affrontare quello che le sta accadendo ancora una volta, perché quando scappi dai problemi, prima o poi quelli ti raggiungono.

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Special thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire to share this ARC COPY with me in exchange my honest review. I wish I could love it more. Compliments are like jokes,’ Cat says drily. ‘If you have to explain what they are, they haven’t worked.” It is a gripping, if unpalatable, story, a huge hit with the students. We all very much enjoyed the way that Maggie’s experiences are slowly revealed to mirror Anna’s. I would recommend this book to older readers, owing to its mature themes, explicit language and sexual material.I was in no way expecting to like this story as much as i did, and i can honestly say this is one of the best novels i've read in a long time. When I first heard Laura Bates was writing a YA novel, I was so excited to read it. I loved her feminist non-fiction books, Everyday Sexism and Girl Up, and I was sure The Burning was going to be incredible, too! Unfortunately, it left me a little disappointed. When I was first given this book, I was pretty sceptical. The whole “bringing light to issues teenage girls face” theme is fairly common nowadays and, in my opinion, not always that great. When Anna moves from Birmingham to St. Monans in Scotland, she hopes it will be a fresh start. She's left her past behind, and is ready to begin anew. She's just starting to settle, to find her feet, and has made some good friends, when her past finds her, and everyone knows what she ran from. As she struggles with the abuse and bullying, and the sudden loss of her friends, her history project keeps her going. She must research the life of a local person, and has discovered that in the 17th Century, a teenage gi

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The Burning is an important, albeit brutal, book about sexism, double standards, sexual harassment, and online abuse that a lot of young girls go through while at school. I think The Burning is an exceptionally important book for young people at the moment, cyberbullying is a huge problem and I think The Burning does a good job at representing that, while also highlighting how this bullying and harassment is of a sexual nature for a lot of young girls. The Burning is a feminist contemporary cross magical realism cross mystery. It follows a girl named Anna who's just moved to Scotland with her mother after something awful happened at her last school in England. While there, she begins to explore the story of a woman burned for witchcraft centuries ago in her new hometown. We publish a Literature Newsletter when we have news and features on UK and international literature, plus opportunities for the industry to share. I can't deny that this book had an effect on me. The author captures Anna's fear, shame and frustration as she is confronted with constant double standards. It's also very British, and I related a lot more to the high school culture here than I do when reading American YA. Some parts hit very close to home. I recognized such moments as this one:

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Unlike O’Neill, though, Bates allows her heroine to have the last word. In a cinematically rousing culmination, Anna turns on her harassers. It is particularly satisfying that Simon, the originator, is given no arc of redemption, though the reader glimpses the nastiness of his father early on; and that the headmaster who dares to suggest that Anna’s choices somehow justified her subsequent treatment is verbally eviscerated by her furious mother. This is a hard and challenging read, but its power and necessity are impossible to deny. The pace of the story was moderate. I find the story of Maggie included in between was quite draggy at first, but although I still find it quite irrelevant to the whole plot, it was an interesting tale and it brought another kind of emotional ride to the story. At least that’s what she thinks … until the whispers start up again. As time begins to run out on her secrets, Anna finds herself irresistibly drawn to the tale of Maggie, a local girl accused of witchcraft centuries earlier. A girl whose story has terrifying parallels to Anna’s own…

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It is hard to look, and yet hard to look away, in parts. I just really wish I didn't have so many issues with it. Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she’s been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in a history project about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century". CW: horrific slut shaming, sharing and doctoring of nude images of young teen, death of father from cancer, teen abortion. Anna fa proprio una scoperta in tal senso quando per un progetto scolastico si imbatte in un libro di storia di Saint Monans che accenna a una giovane donna in particolare, accusata di stregoneria nel 1600. Bates then worked as an actress and a nanny, a period during which she has said she experienced sexism at auditions and found the young girls she was caring for were already preoccupied with their body image. [3] [4] Everyday Sexism Project [ edit ]

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And then there's the fact that we don't really know much about any of the characters. Anna likes to swim, and was on her swim team at her previous school. Cat, one of Anna's new friends, is really into photography, and wants to be a photography. Alisha is super smart, hard working, and always gets top grades. Robin is a carer for his disabled mum. That's as much as we find out about them. No other hobbies or interests to fully flesh them out. I mean, they do have distinctive personalities and voices, but I can't tell you much about who they are, because we're not told. I would most definitely recommend this book to anyone who hasn’t already read it, no matter their age or sex. Dealing with issues of victim blaming, casual sexism and the still very skewed way of "dealing" with things, The Burning shines a light right into the darkest corners of reality.