Update (7/14/2022): I’m now fully healed from Covid!! I still have lingering symptoms, but I’m not as sick as I was when I first got tested. This post is just an update on how I was feeling before.
Original post (April 29): I was tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, April 31, but I’d started feeling symptoms from the previous Saturday, April 28. Since I got sick, I had been in the house, sick with cold/flu-like symptoms, like a sore throat, coughing excessively, nasal congestion, chest congestion, tension headaches, and weakness in the body. Luckily, I didn’t catch a fever or anything more dangerous. I hoped I would be okay by the end of my isolation.
In the meantime, I’d been reading and watching TV and movies more often. Here are some books, audiobooks, shows, and movies I got into while sick with Covid.
Books
Heartstopper Vol. 3 & 4 by Alice Oseman – I loved this cute little graphic novel series back when I first read it in 2020, but I did a reread of volumes 1-3. Volume 4 I just finished, and it is spectacular. Nick and Charlie are as adorable as ever, but there’s more to their story than just the romance. There’s themes of eating disorders, mental illness, family drama, trauma, and falling in love for the first time. Volume 4 is probably the best installment because it’s the most real. I really felt for all of these characters while reading this graphic novel.
Finding Me by Viola Davis – I’ve only just started reading Viola’s memoir, but the audiobook makes it so much better. I’ve always admired Viola as an actress (How to Get Away with Murder, Fences, The Help, Doubt) and I’ve also been impressed by her use of vocabulary, and the way she can fill up a room with her words. I watched her interview with The Breakfast Club about healing her “little 8 year old girl”, and the deep impact made me want to pick up her memoir.
Shows
Outlander (season 6) – I had to rewatch season 5 because I fell of of it because it was getting boring lol. But I’m so sorry that I did that because who would have thought that the end of season 5 and the beginning of season 6 would be so damn good!! This was what I had been missing in season 5!!!!! Now that I’m all caught up, I’m ready for season 6, yay!! I always get final-season vibes whenever a new Outlander season drops, but I’m sure it will shake up later on. Claire and Jamie still can’t keep their hands of each other, Brianna and Roger’s baby boy Jemmy is so cute, he can walk through the stones. A lot of history-changing moments already, and I’m more curious as to how they will affect the making of the USA.
Stranger Things 4 – Stranger Things took me on another emotional roller coaster this season, after what seemed like 2 and a half years away. There were a lot of themes of grief, losing friends, growing apart from your childhood, the dangers of the “popular crowd”, and so much trauma. The writers and producers really put Eleven, Max, and Nancy through literal hell this season! They usually put all of the kids through hell, but this season felt more about loss, pain and regret, and what it means to push through all of that.
Heartstopper (the show!) – Ok so the main reason why I reread the books was to see the show, and the show was just as good! They only covered volumes 1 and 2, from what I remember, and they changed a few things, but the overall story is still there. I really liked it!
Russian Doll – This show was interesting….Imagine if you died and came back to live the same day over and over. What would you do different? Or would you change something? The comedic aspects of the show were brought by lead actress Natasha Lyonne, who was so funny! There was a lot of emotional themes too, dealing with regret, loss, grief, and breakups. Which made the show more enticing to watch.
Good Girls (seasons 3 and 4) – I kind of fell off of this show because all three main characters don’t know how to be good robbers. Ruby keeps thinking she can go back to her family to save her ill daughter after committing bank robbery; Annie is too emotionally attached to every emotionally unavailable guy who’s nice to her; and Beth thinks she’s so badass and can do bad all by herself, until she shoots herself in the foot and gets caught by Rio, their dealer. I’m trying to finish this show just to see how it ends, but…it’s draining me at the moment.
Succession (season 2) – Ok so I’m not business-savvy at all, I’m not a businesswoman in the traditional sense, but I somehow find this show interesting. I don’t fully understand the business-lingo that the Roy Family talks about; I’m mostly here for the family antics the sibilings go through, both with each other and individually. My favorite characters are Tom, Greg, Connor, and Roman.
Movies
Senior Year – Senior Year was surprisingly really good and super funny! I was never a big Rebel Wilson fan; I knew her from Pitch Perfect, and stuff like that. But I was never a huge fan of her work. Rebel’s comedic timing was on point in the movie, even some of the emotional parts tugged on my heartstrings. A very funny, family-friendly movie about knowing who your real friends are, both in high school, and in life. The whole concept of prom queen is kind of stupid, anyway. Throw the whole crown away, or share it!
*rewatch: Pride and Prejudice (2005 version) – Back when my symptoms were really bad and I needed a comfort movie to watch, I turned on Pride & Prejudice on HBO Max. It still holds up after all these years. The music, the scenery, the cinematography, the characters, especially Kiera Knightley and Matthew McFayden‘s chemistry as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. I also noticed how witty and surprisingly charming Mr. Darcy was; the way he’d say certain lines.
Let me know in the comments below of any media you got into this weekend!
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Thanks for reading,
I’m happy you’re feeling much better!
While I was sick.. I didn’t really do much- mainly I kept sleeping because I had nothing else to do 🤣 though thankful my work DID oblige us to stay home for a full week, but that was boring ahaha Idk what to do other than working 😅
I believe I had finished ONE book atleast (dont remember which one), and though Ive wanted to rewatch some animes- I did none of that ahah. Dad was working from home though so he was kinda yelling across the house (not really- but he has a loud voice) so there went all my concentration rofl
Awwww thank you Kristina!! Yeah I’m so happy I’m feeling better lol. I don’t wish this on anyone. Sucks that you couldn’t concentrate because of your dad lmaooo. I have a loud family too, so sometimes they wouldn’t let me be sick in peace. 😂
Glad you’re feeling better. I had COVID last year and the fever and body aches were no joke.
Thank you!! Oh no you had it too?! Damnnnnn. Glad you’re feeling better too. I didn’t have fever or body aches though.