Herodotus

Several pit players use the long stretch between 'Getting to Know You' and the end of Act I to pull out books or magazines. Primis said, "When I played South Pacific, I read Herodotus."

- Henry Alford, in The New Yorker 

Books I've actually finished lately: 73

On India (as it happens)

I returned from this journey embarrassed by my own ignorance, at how ill read I was.

- Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

Facebooks - III

Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence / Anglo-English      Attitudes - Geoff Dyer [I don't remember which came first. Most              probably read concurrently]
God Is Not Great: the case against religion - Christopher Hitchens
Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew - Shehan Karunatilaka [in      manuscript]
Apocalypse Now (Redux) script - John Milius
Histories - Herodotus [partial]
John Clare: A Biography - Jonathan Bate [unfinished]
In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
Collected Poems - Zbigniew Herbert
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

Books I've actually finished lately: 21