A review by reneerianne
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

It nearly took me a year to get through this, but I'm really glad I took my time with it so that some of the pieces could really sink in! I do think that it could have been a little shorter (I skipped over some of the book reviews of books I did not know), and there was some repetition between the pieces sometimes. However, I also really enjoyed reading these pieces that Atwood wrote for different occasions and contexts in chronological order as it gave insight into how her thoughts developed and what she was thinking about at the time. If you're an Atwood fan like me, I think you'd enjoy this, but if you come seeking answers to the questions posited on the back of the book, I'm afraid you might perhaps be a little disappointed.

Pieces I particularly enjoyed and will likely be revisiting:
- Scientific Romancing (2004)
- The Futures Market (2013)
- Why I Wrote MaddAddam (2013)
- How to Change the World? (2013)
- Reflections on The Handmaid's Tale (2015)
- We Are Double-Plus Unfree (2015)