- Paperback: 310 pages
- Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (9 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714531189
- ISBN-13: 978-0714531182
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,408,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Passionate, frustrated, sarcastic, and sometimes hopeful... [Riverbend] offers... a perspective too often overlooked, ignored, or suppressed.
Susan Sarandon
Anyone who cares about the war in Iraq must read this book.
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Nothing but positive praise for Baghdad Burning.,
This review is from: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback)
I first came across these blogs athttp://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com and was really impressed with the integrity of the content.Here was a young girl living with the reality and horror of war, yet still writing inspirational and interesting essays on her everyday life as an Iraqui civilian, bringing it home to us that ordinary Iraqui people are no different from other ordinary people anywhere. Despite living under occupation and constant threat of death and torture from extremists empowered by the invaders or from those invaders themselves, her writings are fresh,emotive and brave.These blogs are moving,educational and this book should be read by every british and american citizen whether you're for or against the illegal war on terror. This book is courageous,real and will hopefully make you think and ultimately take your own stand against this illegal war.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (32 customer reviews) 121 of 136 people found the following review helpful:
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Iraq's Anne Frank?,
By David Dix - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback)
First, this book is NOT written by James Ridgeway. He just wrote a short introduction to the book. Amazon should change its copy to reflect that Riverbend is the author of this collection of blog entries.
Riverbend is a woman in her mid-twenties living in the hell that is Baghdad. Her blog "Baghdad Burning" is an example of how vital the blogging phenomenon can be. She gives us, in "real time", a deeply intimate view of what is actually happening to the people of Iraq by describing what she and her family members are going through. Her entries are sometimes funny, often angry, always compassionate. She is well educated and well read, knows a great deal about American culture and is ferociously honest. Her entries are not ideological, like those of many other Iraqi bloggers. She speaks from her heart, not her politics. Writing is writing, but great writing is rare and deserves to be honored. We are not a time, yet, when the literature of the Internet can be respected as equal to that in print. But, if there ever is a Nobel Prize for Internet Literature, Riverbend should be its first recipient. She is the equal to any essayist writing today. Even when angry, she writes with a delicacy, with true elegance that no other writer I know can match. Each day, thousands of people around the world view her blog. Many days we are disappointed she has not made an entry. That is not because we love her writing and have learned so much from her expression of her point of view; we all open her page just to make sure she is still alive, that she has not been shot or bombed, or raped or subjected to any more suffering than she and her family have already experienced. She is a person many of us love deeply and want so much for her to survive and flourish. I keep this book next to my computer. I pick it up occassionally and open it some random page. I learn from her, laugh with her, feel her agony at what has been done to her country, her people. This book is wonderful. It will become a classic. And it will stand as part of a body of great literature all of us who consider her a friend know she will someday write. 74 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cuts through the B.S. of corporate news,
By L.A. in CA - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback)
Hands down, this is one of the best books yet to bring home the reality of what this illegal occupation is doing to Iraq and her people. Writing from her home in Baghdad, Riverbend invites us into her home, introduces us to her family and neighbors, and allows us to tag along with her as she goes about her life.
This book is a compilation of her blog entries for part of 2003 and 2004. Because her thoughts and observations are written down daily - or as often as electricity allows - her writing is fresh and honest and we are allowed to share her hopes, fears and anger in a very personal way. A talented writer, she is armed with a wealth of facts and statistics regarding culture, politics and religion in the area. She also shares many of the tragic stories of innocent Iraqis trying to cope with unbearable circumstances. It's enough to break your heart. If you are interested in delving further into life in Iraq, the author includes numerous links to websites and blogs of a similar nature. 47 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hope out of Chaos,
By M. A. Seigenthaler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback)
Internet users, myself included, have been following Riverbend's blog for a few years now and I can barely express how thrilled I am that it has finally been published. With any luck, the remainder will be published and her full story will be told. This is the most believable account of day-to-day life in occupied Iraq that I have ever seen. Bagdhad Burning would be an excellent tool for teachers that want to bring the current situation abroad into a more complete context than we see in news coverage. High school age children will be drawn in by the experience of someone closer to their age (she was 24 when she started her blog), and will likely empathize with her struggles and her passion.
Thought there are several blogs maintained by Iraqi civilians, this one has a clear, compassionate voice and she seems much like any one of us. Her daily struggles to get by can be quite compelling, as she combats things like intermittent access to electricity and water. Her English is perfect. In fact, her English is better than many native speakers. She is highly intelligent and articulate. She will inform you and she will make you cry. In order to make the war more acceptable, there are many who would like us to think of Iraqi civilians as less than human, that Muslims somehow value life less than the "rest of us". Riverbend makes it impossible to fall into that trap. Her voice is as clear and as present as your sister's, your neighbor's, your closest friend's. You will ache for her and pray for her family. If you read this book and want to know what happens next, the blog is ongoing at http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/. She continues to update, roughly every two weeks, unless some major event comes sooner. |
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