Bookstores East and West

The plum rains continue in Shanghai - it was stop and go rain all day. Fortunately, it seemed to stop each time we needed to travel. We spent several hours in bookstores today but didn't find much. I bought a little book of Tang Dynasty poetry but the crowds were such that I could barely see the books much less buy any. I miss the comfortable and relatively uncrowded bookstores of America. To think of finding a chair or a cup of hot chocolate in a Chinese bookstore is, well - unthinkable.