La Vie En Rose for 2006 July 6

I am reading Rebecca West's Black Lamb & Grey Falcon (thanks to Alyson). It is really a great book, and well written. I love reading it because I feel like it's filling in a whole (just one of many) in my knowledge of Yugoslav history. I really wish I'd started reading it earlier, or that I could do nothing but read it for the next week to finish it before I go, or that I was feeling braver about the possiblity of taking a huge, hevay book with me so I could read it while I am there. Oh well.