It's kind of traumatic when the computer breaks.

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I end up wandering from room to room at loose ends, occasionally cooking something inappropriate or reading something weird. And I spent all day today thinking it was Tuesday. I'm not sure when I thought it was all day yesterday. I did remember to buy flour, though, which is probably a good sign.

I didn't realize this the first time I read it, but apparently Robin McKinley's Spindle's End takes place in the same world as Deerskin. There's a throwaway line about the Queen having come from a country famous for its fleethounds, and I went "ah-hah!" And then shortly there's a whole page worth of backstory existing mostly to make it clear that, yes, she is from Ossin's country. She seems to have adapted pretty well to her life in Loads Of Expository Froof Country.

I do like this book! But there is a lot of expository froof. It worked better in Sunshine.

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[octopedingenue]

And Deerskin, technically, takes place in the same world as The Hero and the Crown, as Ossin makes an offhand comment about Aerin, though she lived Long Ago and Far Away. BREAKING OF BRAINS!

If you think Spindle's End is expository froof, Chalice is going to make your teeth hurt.

[snarp]

Just reading the synopsis of Chalice is alarming.

[lacrimawanders.livejournal.com]

Sunshine had so much expository froof that it read like a sequel.

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Yeah, I definitely kept feeling like it was too much background for one book.