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A review by thecolourblue
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
I was really disappointed with this one. I really enjoy graphic journalism as a genre, and I'm been wanting to read this book for a long time, but what I got wasn't what I was hoping for.
I think I just wanted more actual journalism from the book, but what we really get is more of a meta-commentary on journalism and a focus on a group of four white Americans whose blogging project feels more like tourism than reporting. It doesn't feel like a story about the Middle East, or the repurcussions of war. The people and the events of the locations that the characters visit are more like a backdrop for their own personal exploration, in a way that just makes me roll my eyes.
I think I just wanted more actual journalism from the book, but what we really get is more of a meta-commentary on journalism and a focus on a group of four white Americans whose blogging project feels more like tourism than reporting. It doesn't feel like a story about the Middle East, or the repurcussions of war. The people and the events of the locations that the characters visit are more like a backdrop for their own personal exploration, in a way that just makes me roll my eyes.