If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu

I picked up this novella because I saw someone post something like "If you like cozy reads like Murderbot, you'll love If Found, Return to Hell." Which, OK, I don't think Murderbot is cozy although it is my comfort read, but OK. Furthermore, what a fucking fantastic title. Thirdmore, I noticed this was Em X. Liu's first novella-length work, and I love to read authors who are just bursting onto the scene.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-07-07-cozy-necromancy/

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Cozy necromancy: If Found, Return to Hell, Legends & Lattes, and Gideon the Ninth

Happy start of Q3 to all who celebrate! Like a lot of people, I cope with the pressures of work with necromancy and cozy novels, so I snarfed up three novels in quick succession in the last two weeks. Read my reviews:

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-07-07-cozy-necromancy/

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While recovering from Covid last summer I re-read The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells while crocheting a huge hexagonal blanket. And when I say read, I mostly mean I put it on text to speech on my Kindle. I was really tired all the time and could barely think. Not only that, even having strong emotions exhausted me, so I didn’t want to read anything new and potentially upsetting. I certainly didn’t want to read any news or current events, either.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-06-16-2023-what-makes-good-comfort-read/

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What makes a good comfort read? Or, Murderbot has Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon and I have Murderbot

As I was (once again) re-reading Murderbot and reading about Murderbot re-watching Sanctuary Moon, I realized that Murderbot has a good theory of what makes for comforting media.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-06-16-2023-what-makes-good-comfort-read/

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I’m currently listening to one of my favourite comfort reads: “The Wee Free Men” by Terry Pratchett. I love the audiobook.

“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak’ oour troousers!”

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