Syed’s Reviews > A Time of Gifts > Status Update

Like the author standing still, as he gazes on Esztergom, hesitant to plunge onto Hungary, I am hesitant too, to be over with A Time Of Gifts for now.

I will finish on the night of 10 September, 3rd year anniversary of my second night anniversary in Srinagar, when I was up deep into to the night listening to music and soaking in the luxure and coziness of my hotel room, finding it hard to believe I was there.

If not for mein headache which is intruding on my capacity to taste more deeply, I would have completed it now.

Ah, the nigh end of one of the most wonderful books I will ever read; I take comfort in there being two following sequels and a corpus of Leigh Fermor's works left for me to yet delight in.

O' Paddy, if only you could also be my Pipps Schey.

Making very NICE progress. In Vienna now.

Reading with exceeding delight, but like a sloth, accompanied by Google Earth, Leigh Fermor's Biography and Nick Hunt's account of him retracing Paddy's footsteps, but in 2014.