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Nearing Mactan: Somalia

“In these unsettling times,” Nuruddin Farah writes, “Everyone’s fate, actions, dreams, hates, and aspirations were seen, understood, and interpreted in stark political contexts; distrust was the order of the day, and everyone was suspicious of everybody else…. In a civil war, there were no progressives and no reactionaries; everyone was a victim, seldom a culprit.”
In [...]

Second book for Nearing Mactan

The second book has been officially selected for Nearing Mactan. For those who don’t know, Nearing Mactan (which anyone can join) is a blogging book-club community that plans on reading one book from every country on the planet. We’ve already read a book from Romania, and with the selection of the second book, we’re about [...]

And the nominees are…

For those of you who are interested in Nearing Mactan, the blogging book club community that aims to read a book from every country on the globe, you might want to check out And the nominees are… to vote on which book the club will read next.

Nearing Mactan

I’ve joined a new blogging community, and I want to invite all the readers of Fluid Imagination to join me over there. It’s called Nearing Mactan, and it’s a blogging book club community has the goal of reading a book from every country in the world.
We made a decree on the first book, which comes [...]

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