HW 27 Annotated Bibliography, Riverbend

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2005
This book is about a 24 Iraqi girl who survived the war. She talks about her feelings and beliefs on the war and the people in charge. She is a strong and powerful speaker and really makes you feel as if it you were there. She writes this blog to inform people what she is actually going through and what the Iraqi citizens go through in their everyday life. She captures the reader with the details and intensity in her words and stories. People will be shocked and intrigued when reading her blogs. There is nothing boring about this book because it is all true. She takes the war apart and gives you a better way of looking at it. I know that to me the war is confusing and it seems like in skimming her book that she makes it easier to understand. I think that the reader who reads this book will be truly touched and angry after finishing it. She has to go through every day hoping that she doesn’t die, hoping that the Americans don’t bomb the bus she is on or capture her family. This book will teach you what it is like for theses ordinary Iraqi families living in the war.