Dear world, I'm back.

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Dear world,

My name is Asha. A year and a half ago, I decided to start a blog to practice writing book reviews. I was convinced that by signing up to a bunch of SEO mailing lists, my book blog would go viral and everything would be perfect. But 15 months later, my average engagement time is 9 seconds, so you can infer how that turned out.

I forgot about my blog for four whole months. Ever since school started, I didn't even log into my email for this blog! I opened it up just now, and sorted through my 417 unread emails. Four of them were book blitzes I signed up, forgot about, and missed the deadline for. I currently have 7 books I signed up to ARC read that I still need to write a review for.

But I'm back. And this time, I'll be posting consistently and giving you what you came here for (whatever that is).

Sincerely,
Asha

PS: I mean it this time

PPS: My old pen name was Paige, but I kind of grew tired of it. I'm slowly transitioning to Asha.

PPPS: When I say 'dear world', I'm not actually talking to the world. Realistically, I'm talking to two people:
1. Someone who stumbled upon this post while looking for something else
2. My friend irl who actually reads this thing

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