Reading marathon

Maggie and I spent the weekend wedged into the opposite corners of the sofa, hunched over books. We fell into a spontaneous reading frenzy, pausing only to feed; I can't call it eating, we barely noticed what we were taking in. On Friday we took a couple of newly-released books from the library, the ones that can be borrowed for 3 weeks only, no renewals. We started reading right away, joking there's not much time--only 3 weeks, and the books are voluminous! Soon, we were deeply immersed in stories; we were transferred into the fiction world, snapping back to reality only to satisfy the basic needs for food, bathroom breaks and occasionally to glance at each other with an embarrassed smile at our foolishness, only to delve back into the books a moment later. I sometimes lose myself in a book, but this was the first time both of us spent entire weekend doing so. We loved it.