HW27: Baghdad Bibliography

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.

This book Baghdad Burning who is female blogger who writes about her daily life and struggles that are happening. The book is based on these blogs that Riverbend (as she identifies herself) has written through her days in Iraq. This book is meant for people who truly care about what is going on in Iraq, and take in information from someone with personal experience. The book is not about bashing on the Americans, it is about coming at peace with very many different issues that are happening in society today. It is like a journal, she goes through it day by day and tells the world about issues that she and many other face. She translated the book into English just so Americans can see what these people have to face, and to consider ourselves lucky. We do not have to wake up worrying whether our children are going to make it home safely after school, or if we are going to get hit by a bomb in the middle of the night. She blogs so that people can relate to her with these issues and state their outlook on it. Blogs like these are viewed by people nationally in the U.S., one viewer being myself. In my A Blog Of One's Own class in college we are taught to create our own blogs, view others blogs, and read about the different blogging out there. This has tremendously impacted me, because I am writing a topic essay on racism and the blogosphere and this was an example that I used. When I looked at the cover of the book, I already knew that what I was about to read was going to be very impacting. The color scheme and pictures are very down lifting, and the introduction explains what you are about to encounter.