Molly+F+Letter

 Dear Humanities 6 Classmates,  In this page of work by the great 6th grade novelist Molly, you will learn of her reading and writing life of as told by the one and only. So go on, begin…. Thank you, thank you so I’ll start from the beginning or at least as far back as I can remember I’ve been reading as many books as I could get my hands on. You can name any of the classics and I can summarize them. It has been that way since kindergarten. Mom says that I might as well start a library, because every book I find that I loved I bought books spill out of every corner of my room, making it quite messy. At shul when our dads were up praying, Estee and I would dive in to the 20 pound book searching through names, presidents that begin with Washington and go as far as John Kennedy. There also was: astrology, maps, flags, and more. We must have lived in that book; even today during lunch I will sneak up to the library and grab the book. Most words there are not used anymore, and if you type them half the time the computer will say that you are wrong, because no one needs them, but drum roll, please. Here they are: napiform Na –pi-form meaning to be shaped like a turnip, thwart TH-WART to stop, nostalgic Nas-tol-gict to remember with sorrow. I may never use them, but they are burned into my mind forever. To write more or not has always been a question. I have a pen (or two!) in every room in the house whenever I get a idea worth writing down. Currently, I have 6 notebooks with the starts of novels. I have had the blessing or curse of always writing too much loose paper floats around my room. I guess you could call me a real writer or just a klutz. Recently about one year back, I’d discovered the // Uglies / Pretties/Specials/Extras // books by Scott Westerfield who is a wizard of words. With mind numbing- pencil chewing – not really focusing to the Hebrew teacher too busy reading action, that is the only downfall of my reading. If a book is good enough every else gets blocked out. Punctuation has always been impossible for me; Spelling was not any easier. My favorite genre of book is fantasy or SI-FI. When I was younger, I was determined to become a wizard like my old role model Harry Potter, on the weekend’s days went like this get up at 6 chew mint, and then throw spices and wave a stick at my desk. One year later I gave up on that and began writing down these ideas and journals began to fill up, Pages and pages of hell hounds, nymphs, games, and now shoes. I fill up books and pages on the little blue desk with little oak wood hearts taped on it, the little desk that smells of cinnamon, that is where all great work happens. Now you have read a chapter in my life of the jumbled words getting knotted together until, they have become a small tapestry of wonder, Or at least something legible.  Yours truly, Molly