Ooops, yes. It’s Mother Night (two words) by Vonnegut. But when you mentioned the time references I confused Mother Night with his other novel Time Quake 🙂 Still, wrong book 🙂

My artificial knee speaks unwillingly after a couple of hours in a car. But I’ve heard other peoples’ knees speak more loudly.

It’s not epistolary epistolary, though, with letters back and forth. I’d have been a bit crushed if it had been. I expect very good things of properly epistolary novels, because they’re so rare.

Lord, I hope so. I am applying for them like mad. Hopefully the universe will notice and reward my industriousness.

Does Vonnegut have a book called Mothernight? That isn’t the same one that I got. Mine’s by a British woman called Sarah Stovell.

I have to steer clear of book shops that sell old paperbacks. I am weak. :p

If they’re in a fight, maybe.

Hahaha, thanks! This is an appealing book, even though it’s fairly quiet. I read it straight through in an hour or two, because I was so curious to see where it was all going.

Yeah, the big toe part was only one incident report out of the dozens in the book, but it was disproportionately annoying to me. I’d have felt better about the whole thing if that bit hadn’t been in there. 🙂

Will it? Okay. I trust you because you are a Science Expert. I shall add it to my TBR list. 🙂