Guide to Belgrade mentality
Reading Momo Kapor's A Guide to the Serbian Mentality late at night reminds me of everything I'm not doing in Belgrade but could be. The most wonderfully uncomplicated things like syncing my heartbeat with the city's at Terazije and wandering aimlessly around Vračar are so far away right now that soaking up the book too often only makes me feel anxious. A collection of vignettes about Belgrade and its character, it's so sincere that reading it in English has almost the same effect as reading Kapor in his original Serbian.