You would think you would remember the first time you realize you just read undisturbed for two straight hours. After worrying that something must be wrong, that something happened is your first thought. Kinda like the banker locked in vault in that twilight zone that emerges to find the world gone ...

So it is interesting having time again. But there is an interesting twist. You are now old enough to see your time-left differently. In your twenties, the hours felt absolutely endless. In your mid fifties, not many things feel endless. This means you enter into these multi-hour relationships with a bit more reason. You don't look at another 1500 page offering from stephen king the same.