HW 27: Annotated Bib

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning:Girl Blog From Iraq.The Feminist Press. New York 2005.

Baghdad Burning is about an a girl from Iraq that writes blogs about her daily life and the dangers she endures while living in Iraq during the time of war. Her blogs are so enticing that many of her readers begin to use them as their most important news source about things going on in Iraq. This book fits into the course Blog! because is the course we discuss how blogs are such a large phenomenon now and how many people do use them as a news source just like a newspaper and this book shows that the things we discuss are true. From reading this book, we will learn what it was like for this girl to live during the time of war and try to understand what war is like for anyone that's around it through their perspective. Many people think that Riverbend can not honestly be Iraqi because she has Internet access and the knowledge of how to use it but these are just horrible stereotypes that have been made about Iraqis.