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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a compilation of a year of blog entries by a upper-middle class young woman in Iraq. Although the woman is well-educated and a near-native speaker of English, the final product is less an eye-opener on the US occupation of Iraq and more a reflection of her ignorance or bias against vari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9551989">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting slice of Iraqi life as it was lived during several years of the war.  I found myself wondering, though, just how representative Riverbend's perspective is of the country as a whole.  She's a middle-class, well-educated woman from a big city.  She speaks as if before the war, all wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40236775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Eye-opening and harrowing.</strong><br/><br/>Feminist Press compilation of the blog (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/">http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/</a>) of an Iraqi woman in her mid-20's, living with her family in Baghdad. Not only does it give a nuanced and often harrowing first-person account of life under occupation, it challenges the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15675554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Riverbend' is a witty and sarcastic anonymous blogger whose stories paint a realistic picture of life in Baghdad post 9/11.  Her political 'rants' are well-organized and intended for an audience that is ignorant to the internal politics of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries that are struggling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46627025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely powerful. Definitely not for the timid. <br/><br/>Without even knowing Riverbend's real name, her very intimate story, or I should say her life, in a war zone grabbed ahold of me and made real not only the occupation of Iraq but also how quickly freedoms we take for granted can be stripp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19286646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a ton of books about the Iraq war.  At least one for each roll of toilet paper I've gone through since March 2003.  While a few western writers have produced awesome books, there has been nothing like reading it unfold from someone while living through it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should be required reading for American citizens, particularly those of us in our twenties.  Riverbend, the anonymous author of this blog-turned-book, is a young professional woman whose life has been turned upside down by the Iraq war.  I was alternately struck by how unbelievably difficu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1072139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing book. The perspective of an Iraqi woman and the truth about what happened to the people in Iraq during the &quot;war on terror&quot;. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a fascinating read!  A young female student's blog was transcribed in this book that explains a lot of what is going on in Bagdad.  She talks about her family, their circumstances, and what daily life entails.  It really puts a personal narrative on a war that is often portrayed extrem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5327951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this started as on online journal of a girl living in Iraq. She started blogging around the time of the Iraqi war. She speaks clearly, and eloquently about how her life has changed as a result. You follow her, as she tries to be moderate about the Americans, into her eventual frustration and seeing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36072136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An Iraqi woman describes the Iraq war as it unfolds outside her window.  Filled with moving descriptions of the hardships and humiliations the war brings to everyday life, as well as cultural and poltical explanations of the current Iraqi landscape.  She's moving, funny, and connects to the readers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1626951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating and eye-opening read. I longed to to know someone from Iraq - to sit and have tea with them and hear them talk about what it was like for them to live through this war. I wanted to know Iraq before and after and speak with someone who had a well rounded and educated opinion wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3286139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;But that's where the difference is: the majority of Iraqis have a deep respect for other cultures and religions...and that's what civilization is. It's not mobile phones, computers, skyscrapers, and McDonalds; it's having enough security in your own faith and culture to allow people the sancti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5216865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't finished  it yet but so far I've got an insight into an innocent girls life caught up by the war in Iraq.<br/><br/>I always knew our media don't tell us everything but now I can see part of what we don't hear about.<br/><br/>It has been nominated for a book prize recently and Riverbend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2335427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So often the War is covered in an US and THEM way, ignoring our shared humanity.<br/><br/>This puts a very real face to citizens of Iraq, and what the war has meant to them, not the soldiers, and ousted leaders. <br/>The perspective of a young middle class Iraqi woman is one I have not heard in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2211166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a particularly upsetting one, but i think anyone living in this country right now should read it.  it's almost impossible to imagine what life was and continues to be like for people living under the u.s. occupation but i think this book comes closest as an honest day to day account.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This gives insight into what people in Baghdad experience during the war. It's the perspective of an educated woman in her late 20's. Perhaps people are people no matter what their religious affiliation. A powerful book. I see there is a 2nd book now which I must get.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blogs are a very powerful medium, and yet so much more palatable in the form of a book!  It's an intense, amazing account of one woman surviving the war in Iraq.  Read it. <br/><br/>my favorite quote thus far: &quot;tanks and guns can break my bones, but emails can be deleted&quot; (10)]]></body>
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