Done! Well, Just About…

With Memory Maze on its way to me, I will finally have all the stand-alone GK books for my collection. My library app has 111 books in the Korman category, but that also includes things like Hope Wins, Game On!, and Guys Read. I’ve been toying with the idea of also getting more compilations that you were involved in. Gord, how much involvement did you have with the Mad Science series?

Other than the 39 Clues series and Snoop (which I’m currently working on), I’ve read the rest of the books. So fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable. I enjoy the literary device you utilize when you switch up chapters through a different characters’ perspective and am also glad you don’t do it with every book. One thing I would like to see is a book with some older main characters, which you haven’t done in a while. I get your demographic is probably mostly in that 12-14 age range but I do miss the Don’t Care High type books.

On a personal note, I had to snicker at the coincidences I experienced while reading this latest batch: The runaway truck in Supergifted. being in the hospital while reading Level 13, watching or about to watch the same movies in our marathon that the kids in The Fort were watching, having a lightning storm here the day after finishing Mixed Up, and reading about Mona Lisa in Faker while my calico cat was sitting in my lap.

Good to see Winnipeg get a mention for the first time since Bugs Potter. Also, while I didn’t write a lot of stories in my youth, I did have one with a similar premise to Mixed Up. The difference was mine was a physical switch, with a character starting to get extra appendages while another was watching theirs disappear. I wasn’t a planner though and it petered out since I didn’t know where I was going with it. Much like most of my posts here…