First things first! The COVID test came back today and it was negative! 🎉 Such a relief. My friend is also doing much better. However, I have a bit of a cough and I am waiting for the GP to confirm I am ready to leave quarantine now.
Apparently I was looking for a little dramatic tune, because my soundtrack for the week was Light of the Seven from Game of Thrones.
Nevertheless, I have not been reading a lot or at all really the last week. Lots of stress, also with the renovations that are still not finished (they claimed it would just take as single day, it has been two days and counting – all the while my furniture is covered with these plastic sheets and everything is covered in dust. Everything!
I am not sure when my reading/blogging mood will return, but Prosper’s Demon is one the books I plan to read first. It’s a tor.com novella that was published earlier this year, and I have really been enjoying myself with their books recently. Also, it looks like it has the perfect atmosphere for the season.
In the pitch dark, witty fantasy novella Prosper’s Demon, K. J. Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and worse men.
In a botched demonic extraction, they say the demon feels it ten times worse than the man. But they don’t die, and we do. Equilibrium.
The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren’t delicate but they’re undeniably effective: he’ll get the demon out—he just doesn’t particularly care what happens to the person.
Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world’s first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he’s demonically possessed.
Have you read Prosper’s Demon? Other Tor.com books you recommend? What are you excited to read next? – Please let me know in the comments!
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Woohoo. Glad it came back negative 🙂
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Yes, it was the first time I was glad to fail the test 😉
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😂
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Hooray for testing negative! I’m so glad. And it is good to hear your friend is feeling better, too.
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They want me to do another test for the cough. So, I hope I will still be negative then 😉
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Fingers crossed. It’s good that they are making sure.
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Thank you! Yes indeed. I wasn’t 100% sure and apparently neither was the doctor. Got my test today, so I hope I will know by tomorrow.
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Good. Let us know how you get on! I hope it’s another negative. 🙂
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I hope so too! I was more disappointed than expected when my quarantine was prolonged. For a week now the only time I went outside was to get a COVID test…
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Great news! Hopefully you shake the cough off and can get back to as normal a life as anyone has anymore.
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They want to do another test, because of the cough, so for now quarantine continues. I am glad they are taking extra precautions because I would hate to have a false sense of safety and then maybe infect others.
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Good call – and it will give you peace of mind too. I still have my fingers crossed for you.
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Thank you! Yes, it was especially for my peace of mind. I would feel horrible if I would still have infected other people…
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That is great news about the test. Hopefully the construction stuff finishes up quickly too.
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The entire thing is said to last until February at least, just hope they don’t need to be inside the apartment a lot anymore. If they would have just told me exactly when they would come to finish it, I would know whether it makes sense to put everything back in their proper place.
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Thank God … and thanks for letting us know. I hope you‘ll soon be feeling better all around!
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I hope so too! They want me to do another test though, for the cough. So here’s to hoping it will still be negative!
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Yes … I‘m just going to keep my fingers crossed for you both until you‘re definitely, certifiedly out of the woods again!
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Thank you! Got my new test today, this time they took the sample from my throat rather than nose – it was even worse.
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Ugh. That sounds profoundly discomfortable. 😦 Even more so, I hope the result is going to come back negative again!
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It would be less bad, if not for the construction works which are literally ongoing right outside my window. I am so glad for noise cancelling headphones even though they don’t cancel everything…
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Hang in there … 😦 Construction noise is the worst. (I know because I once had to work next to a construction site for a whole year.)
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Oh, that sounds awful, but yes this is the worst possible time for me to be renovating the building I live in…
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Have you read Prosper’s Demon? No, I have not. I’m interested in hearing about it though after reading your short blurb about it.
I don’t know you that well even through your blogging as I’m a recent follower, but I’m happy to hear the test cleared negative.
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Thank you so much! I was also very happy the test was negative, unfortunately they want me to take another one, just to be on the safe side. So, here we go again.
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Oh that’s such a relief! Maybe the construction dust is causing the cough?
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I hadn’t thought about it, but it would be a very good explanation! Let’s hope!
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