We enjoyed discovering so many book peddlers setting up in the streets of Arbat here in Moscow, Russia. We didn't enjoy the fact that there was a grand total of one book in English, but that is to be expected. (It should be noted that we have been generally disappointed by the lack of English language books available anywhere so far. Be it street vendors with virtually none. Small shops with second hand fiction sold by previous travelers. Book shops near Universities with a single shelf with similar second hand fiction and a bizarre collection of English language textbooks...who wouldn't want to own a copy of Business Management and Marketing in Russia circa 1997? Even the large bookstores ala Barnes & Noble or Borders typically has a couple sections filled with WAY OVERPRICED classics and Fifty Shades of Grey....ugh..they read crap all over the world. A random bookstore here in Riga, Latvia has had the best selection by far...hopefully a sign of things to come as we continue to move west.)
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