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Baghdad Burning: A girl blog from Iraq. New York: Feminist Press, 2005.

The author of this book is a girl from Iraq who calls herself, Riverbend. This book was written online as a blog, so that she could talk about her feelings about the war and also show and tell people what exactly is going on in Iraq from someone who lives there’s point of view. I will learn a lot from reading this book. I think that I will benefit a lot from this book because we are constantly viewing the war from our American perspective, but being as young as we are and naive I feel that we never really get to actually see other people from different culture’s perspectives on what’s going on, and how it affects other people from different places. After reading the forward by Ahdaf Soueif and then the introduction by James Ridgeway I got a clear idea of what the book was going to be about, as well as a very good education on the war in Iraq etc. I think read some of Riverbend’s entries and was very intrigued with her style of writing and humor. This book is completely relevant to what we are learning in our ITW Blog class right now, as well as it is completely relevant to what is going on in the world around us. I think, after “pre-reading” this book, that Riverbend isn’t truly trying to “talk badly” about Americans and our choice to invade Iraq, I believe that she is just trying to see how bad it is hurting her and her people and to express her true feelings about what is going on. I think that this book holds many benefits and will help me learn a lot about the war, as well as pose some problems, such as I might not agree with Riverbend as much as I would like. Over all, this looks like a very beneficial book to read for this class.