I just finished rereading The Hobbit, and Friday I went to the local used book shop to pick up Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock, on the recommendation of lessismore and Hein (From what I've read so far, I have the feeling that I am going to like it).

I didn't have any cash on me, and as the book was only $3.50, I felt bad about using my credit card. However, the owner cheerfully told me to take the book and to come back and pay when I had the cash. -So nice.

Yesterday I went back to pay for the book, and also decided to pick up The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess, which was a recommendation from kleinbl00. They didn't have The Wanting Seed. But I have been planning on reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, for some time, so I decided to grab that instead. Yet before I could find that, in the WWII section I happened upon The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill, which is the first part of his "The Second War" series, and it earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_World_War_(Churchill)

This reminded me that I had been wanting to read Churchill, and I couldn't pass it up. Churchill was prolific!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writer

and aside from being a wartime Prime Minister, author and historian, he was a painter:

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=667http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=667

Anyway, I got the book. On my way home, I realized it had a couple of things inserted in it. One was a receipt for Dr. William F. Kreik of Reading Pennsylvania from the BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH-CLUB, INC., in NYC, NY. He paid $4.15 for the book, $0.65 more than I did.:

I did a quick search, and found the book advertised by the club in LIFE in 1949 for $4.00. So that seems to be when Dr. Kreik got it.

http://bit.ly/xA2ECXhttp://bit.ly/xA2ECX

The other was an advertising flier for the book that contained an overview of the contents:

I had to look up Dr. Kreik's address, and he lived here:

http://g.co/maps/kh2gshttp://g.co/maps/kh2gs

I enjoy reading my Kindle. But, it will never offer the used book experience.