One courageous and daring girl fights her way into the male dominated journalistic world. She bounces between one war scene to another documenting history with a snap of her camera. Young and naïve and still trying to figure what life is all about, follow Deborah as she lives through misfortune, horror, and jumps from one man’s bed to another all while she learns the meaning of life the long, hard way.

‘Shutterbabe’ written by Deborah Copaken Kogan is the story of her own life. Before becoming an author she was as described in the book as a fearless, adventure seeking, war adrenaline junky, who thought the meaning of love and settling down was not for her. She wanted adventure, thrills, and danger.

As mentioned throughout the book, Deborah was a photographer, a journalist, and a television producer. Her photographs have been published in Newsweek and The New York Times. Her videos have aired on ABC News and Dateline NBC. Her writing was published in The New York Times Magazine.

The book, I felt, focused more on the men she slept with than her journalist adventures. They did go hand-in-hand. Where one adventure took place another man was there to fill her bed. Every chapter was also named after one of the men she was at the time sleeping with.

The book is divided up into three sections. It opens with part one, Develop, where she is in Afghanistan going inside covering the war. This is also the section with the chapters Pascal and Pierre. Pascal was an interesting person. One minute he’s telling Deborah sweet things, buying her gifts, and being an adorable in love man. The next minute he’s bashing a phone receiver into her skull and trying to rape her. Pierre isn’t mentioned for long. She meets him while shooting drug addicts and together they go and find a drug addict willing to let them take photos while he is injecting drugs into his system.

Part two, Stop, features the two men Julian and Doru. Julian was a nice young man who Deborah didn’t sleep with. They were just friends. He helped her get inside a rhino war to take pictures of the new poaching laws. Doru was a difficult man. He

Part three, Fix, is about her change of lifestyle and opinion on the matter of love. Throughout the book she vows never to settle down or fall in love again. She just wants to travel and cover heated situations. The two chapters here are called Paul and Jacob. Paul is the man who ends up changing her mind and together they fall in love. After a few adventures and close calls with death together, they retire to a more normal less adventurous life. Thus comes in Jacob, their son.

Throughout the whole book there are a lot of flashbacks, which at times makes it confusing because it will jump into one moment with one man and then flashback to a totally different instance either before or after that man came into the picture. It gets to be confusing at first but once you realize she’s going to a different moment it all makes sense.

Even though only six chapters are named after men in the book, she sleeps with and encounters a lot more. She literally hops from one bed to the next. It continues too even after she has been raped multiple times and assaulted. Sleeping with men is a strong focus with this book.

This was a really interesting book, the choices she made in her life never ceased to amaze me at how little she concerned herself with safety. The ending was a huge shock. I never saw her lifestyle changing that drastically.

The purpose for the author to write this book, it gives actually in the book. Her life changed and she needed a way to make ends meet financially. Also, throughout the book after something terrible happens to her or around her she always says she should write a book.

Overall, I would give this book four stars. I highly recommend it. While at times it was just her bouncing from man to man, it also included a lot of encounters with war and her life as a journalist.



9 Responses to “Book Review”

  1.   fuglsang Says:

    It’s been quite some time since I read this, but I don’t remember
    focusing too much attention on the dudes. But I also can’t
    remember much of what she write about photojournalism and
    covering big stories around the world. I thought that would have
    been the larger emphasis, but we all read differently.

    Covers all the necessary elements, Amber. This falls more into
    the category of memoir than long-form journalism, but it still
    seems like a good text for this class.

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