The Burning

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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 learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own. ritorno a voi con una lettura fatta di recente, l’unica del mese di marzo che mi ha coinvolto veramente per i temi importanti e attuali che tratta, anche se per certi versi mi ha fatto storcere un po’ il naso. 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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I'm very impressed by this underrated read! I was mostly attracted to this book because the author, Laura Bates, is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and is an all round inspirational woman. I can happily say that this book reflects those feminist values that I so love reading about and was well worth my time. This powerful young adult novel by the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project is a necessary book every young adult needs. You can call me a prude, and you can call me a whore, but really you're just calling me a girl. I am a girl. But those other things are yours. They're in your minds, not mine. .. It's you who've made me a slut. All of you. I didn't have to do anything at all.” The magical realism section was a small sub-plot, but did have such an impact. It added something different to this story and created a really interesting parallel between the treatment of women centuries ago compared to now. I think I'd have enjoyed this less without that aspect in this. It had great discussions about grief and abortion and revenge porn and parental relationships and friendships. I loved the relationship Anna had with her mother-it was complex and maybe not entirely healthy, but really showed that they both cared. I like the way the author uses the descriptions of witches and links them to modern-day girls. The book talks about the pressures young girls undergo - for example, boys sending nude photos around and the way girls are pressured to be just sexy enough, but not too much.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. Lo stile dell’autrice è elegante e incisivo, la lettura scorrevole e senza intoppi, anche nei passaggi tra le due vicende, quella di Anna e quella di Maggie. Due to bullying at her former school, Anna and her mum move to Scotland and change her last name, but her past isn’t far behind.

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The characters were amazing - i cried for Anna and Maggie. Literally cried. Because the issues in this book are what too many girls and women have had to endure, and because i can all too well imagine what Anna, Cat and the other girls went through.I wasn't so keen on the ending, either, unfortunately. It's more that I didn't find the reaction to what Anna does quite believable, I just don't think it would have happened like that. Maybe it's end the story on a hopeful note, but I had various question marks over it - would Anna have actually have done that? Would she have said what she said? - and it just felt a little unrealistic? But maybe that's just me. Bates, Laura (12 June 2015). "Queen's Birthday Honours List: Knights Outnumber Dames Five to One". The Guardian. 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 girl, Maggie, was executed as a witch. The more she discovers, the more she finds she relates to the girl whose whole town turns on her because of something someone else did - and that the world is not so different now as it was then, with girls getting blamed for what boys do to them. this was such a hard book to read. it made me so angry and upset. i can't even imagine how many girls and women have to go through this and how victims are blamed and shamed whilst the abusers get away with it. the fact that women, myself included, have said: "well, it wasn't that bad was it?" when we're victimised. I really enjoyed the intermingling of the two time lines, the comfort Anna found in researching Maggie's story and the self belief and confidence she found along the way.

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If you have a daughter or a niece or a younger sister or a goddaughter, buy it for them now' -- The Pool 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. I loved this book! It’s the first book that I read by Laura Bates but certainly will not be the last. I liked how the author wrote and structured this story, and also the way that she mentions serious topics like cyberbullying, sexual assault, teen pregnancy, abortion and body shaming, because I think that more people should be aware that this still happens and that right now a girl might be going through what Anna did.Everyone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago—except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. 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.