In some ways, a new disease isn’t an Invasion narrative it’s a First Contact story. The progress of the disease was chaotic, with lots of pendulum swings in my symptoms. I could somehow FEEL the clockwork of self-replicating whirligigs at war in my bloodstream. My joints fizzed, like Alka Seltzer was stuck behind my kneecaps. Neither the disease nor my body seemed to know what they were supposed to do. With this thing, that disassociated feeling stuck around FOR A WEEK. Yes, a party drug-when I get a bad flu, I often feel trippy for a few hours before the illness proper hits. The first days were REALLY weird, halfway between a gnarly flu and a gnarly party drug. (She’s also written about her experience in isolation.) At least use different dishes, hand towels, etc.

If you feel symptoms and are able to isolate from the rest of your household, it’s worth it to do so quickly. Spoiler: Justine still has no symptoms after two weeks, so we got lucky. I went home and told Justine (who’s immunocompromised!) that I had to leave right away. On a grocery store run sixteen days ago (March 24), exhaustion hit me out of nowhere, like a bag of doorknobs was challenging my immune system.

I got some blood work back recently, and am here to tell you that Covid-19 is a weird disease. This post is adapted from a thread that I tweeted on April 6, updated. With YOUNGBLOODS, Scott Westerfeld brings back his most iconic character and merges the IMPOSTORS and UGLIES series into a breathtaking tale of rivalry, rebellion, and repercussion. Freedom, she observes, has a way of destroying things.Īs the world is propelled further into conflict and conspiracy, Frey and Tally join forces to put a check on the people in power, while trying to understand the limits of their own. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. But for over a decade, she’s kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice-and using it to question everything her family stood for. As the title suggests, it marks the return of Tally Youngblood.īuy it at your local bookstore, or click here.įrey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father’s command. The final book in the new Uglies series, YOUNGBLOODS, is out now.

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