War book wins Blooker blog prize

A book written by a US solider about his experiences in post-war Iraq has won the Blooker prize for books based on blogs.

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Books based on blogs? What the hell kind of category is that? Welcome to the 21st Century I guess.

I was listening to the radio the other day and they were interviewing this woman who had written a book about a relationship with some jerk. The book has started as a blog where she wrote her personal reflections and just vented her feelings, and she thought it should turn into a book as there was really no literature about relationships - at least not that kind of relationships, the kind that are abusive in the subtle sense. Apparently a publisher liked the idea. I think we'll see that happening a lot more now that blogs are so common.