Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

     My name is Cristina and reading and writing are my life.  I have recently achieved my BA Honours in English and Cultural Studies. I currently aspire to be a novelist, and hope to work with books whether in editing, publishing,  or physically gluing pages and covers together or at a bookstore or library stocking shelves. When not busy with family etc, I enjoy playing the piano and guitar, and spending time reading a good fiction novel or at the least, trying to write one.  I also sing at church.

     I would love to live out my days writing and reading,  sane of mind and body and near family... and if this doesn't work out, I intend on disappearing into a black mist and living out the remains of an immortal existence, in a coffin by day and drinking blood in the company of the best men that literature has to offer by night...

     On September 1st of this year, I realized that after 5 years, there was no schedule to follow, no new syllabi or texts to purchase... I was no longer a student.  Therefore, I set myself  a challenge to be completed over the course of one year.  For the first time in 5 years, I picked up a book that I wanted to read.  And on September 3rd 2012, I began a book blog to detail my self-proposed task- to read, from cover to cover, each of the text's that currently reside in my bookcase.  This involves 120 individual books, 30% of which house multiple texts. Not a small undertaking in the least, nor an easy one as I have had to restrict myself to not touch, purchase or inquire about any book that does not have a place in my bookcase. I am thoroughly excited and though I foresee many bumps and a rest stop or two along the way, I shall endeavor to read and blog faithfully and complete my challenge on time!

I hope you will enjoy coming along with me on this wonderful year of literary abandon and that together we can escape the stressful chaos of reality and disappear into many diverse and wondrous literary worlds.

Contact me at:   bilichc@hotmail.com