HW: 27 annoted bibliography

Baghdad Burning is a remarkable book written by Riverbend. Riverbend is a 24 year- old female that lives in Iraq. She first started this blog as a place to complain about the occurrences that are going on in her life. She had always wanted to start a web blog but she never thought anybody would read it, her blogs had become so popular that they were transformed into a book that is being read all across America. While reading this book the reader will learn important information about the background of Iraq and the invasion of the United States and how it has effect their lives. Riverbend will discuss what is going on in Baghdad and how terrible and frightening it can be to live there. This book has a lot to do with our course, A Blog of One’s Own, first of all the entire book is made up of different blogs that Riverbend has published online. It also ties into women and the digital revolution, it shows how popular blogs truly are, I find it extremely interesting to see that women in Iraq are aware of blogs and that we are able to communicate with them over the internet. This book truly does emphasize the fact of how important blogs are and how our society is constantly changing and women are gaining more and more power all around the world. After skimming the book and reading some blogs it is already easy to see what kind of writing Riverbend does, it is pretty casual and easy to understand. However, what she is writing about is extremely important and dramatic and can often be upsetting. She goes into great detail about the war and her own opinions about American and especially George W. Bush. Benefits from this book is that it has the potential to reach out to people all across the country and begin to see the war in a different light, even if people are not interested in politics and the war this book is a great way to get information and learn about what is going on around the world. Some challenges may be that is difficult to read because of how upsetting it really is, hearing about innocent people being killed, people that Riverbend know and having to always hear her talk about being scared in her own home.