My name is David. And this is quite possibly the stupidest idea I've ever had.
You kids and your young adult novels. You get these lengthy, mildly thought out book series that come out once a year to continue your favorite story. Well, when I was a kid, our books came out once a month. Suck on that!
Of course, this probably was hell on the writers if it wasn't done yet. "Too bad! We need it down in publishing!"
So, when I was younger I used to read a book series called Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate (later revealed to be namesake Katherine Applegate, her husband Michael Grant, and a handful of ghost writers). The book series told of a group of five tweens who encounter an alien who gives them the power to turn into animals, and in turn they use these powers to fight off an alien invasion.
This is one of those things that you might bury in the back of your head when you grow up, then someone brings up one day and you're like "Oh yeah! That existed!" Then you might find yourself shocked that there hasn't been a reboot in recent years. I mean, think about it. Imagine this series reimagined in the style of Stranger Things targeting that audience. It might be perfect.
That being said, these are kid's books targeting ::shudder:: 90's tweens. They're probably not very complex and are likely very, very dated. I probably shouldn't be reading these. Why am I? Well, it's kind of a funny story that involves COVID-19, or as funny as COVID-19 can be...
So it's no secret that everyone is self isolating and avoiding human contact for the time being. The other day I passed around this article about someone who read all the Animorphs books in five days to all my friends and joked to them that "Soon self isolation will get so bad that we'll attempt this." One of them responded to me "I dare you."
They dared me.
So here I am in full public reading children's literature. JOKE'S ON YOU!
I won't do it in five days. I read too slow, and me barely speek English so good let alone read it. But I hope to read all 54 novels eventually, plus all 10 add-on books (Megamorphs, Alternamorphs, The Whatever Chronicles). Maybe I'll watch the TV show too. What's the worst that could happen?
Without further adieu, I better start reading!
You kids and your young adult novels. You get these lengthy, mildly thought out book series that come out once a year to continue your favorite story. Well, when I was a kid, our books came out once a month. Suck on that!
Of course, this probably was hell on the writers if it wasn't done yet. "Too bad! We need it down in publishing!"
So, when I was younger I used to read a book series called Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate (later revealed to be namesake Katherine Applegate, her husband Michael Grant, and a handful of ghost writers). The book series told of a group of five tweens who encounter an alien who gives them the power to turn into animals, and in turn they use these powers to fight off an alien invasion.
This is one of those things that you might bury in the back of your head when you grow up, then someone brings up one day and you're like "Oh yeah! That existed!" Then you might find yourself shocked that there hasn't been a reboot in recent years. I mean, think about it. Imagine this series reimagined in the style of Stranger Things targeting that audience. It might be perfect.
That being said, these are kid's books targeting ::shudder:: 90's tweens. They're probably not very complex and are likely very, very dated. I probably shouldn't be reading these. Why am I? Well, it's kind of a funny story that involves COVID-19, or as funny as COVID-19 can be...
So it's no secret that everyone is self isolating and avoiding human contact for the time being. The other day I passed around this article about someone who read all the Animorphs books in five days to all my friends and joked to them that "Soon self isolation will get so bad that we'll attempt this." One of them responded to me "I dare you."
They dared me.
So here I am in full public reading children's literature. JOKE'S ON YOU!
I won't do it in five days. I read too slow, and me barely speek English so good let alone read it. But I hope to read all 54 novels eventually, plus all 10 add-on books (Megamorphs, Alternamorphs, The Whatever Chronicles). Maybe I'll watch the TV show too. What's the worst that could happen?
Without further adieu, I better start reading!
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