No End of Books

In honor of Independence Day, (aka the 4th of July, aka the holiday with the easiest date to remember,) the TTT linkup  theme is . . . Books with Red, White, and Blue Covers!! The thing is . . . I have less than no memory of what book covers look like, let alone what color they are.  I was reading a book earlier this afternoon, and I literally could not tell you what the color scheme was.  But enough about my life failures and problems.  After much consultation of my bookshelf and library account, I have come up with a list.     9: Blue Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie In my humble opinion, this is the best of Christie's books.  The twist at the end is absolutely shocking, but the lead-up does give all the clues.  I'd also recommend the movie that came out last year - it was quite well-done.  8: Red The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle There's no bias attached to this one at all.  Especially considering that I was

I'm basically an expert on injuring myself, and those are my qualifications to write this.  Anyway, this is inspired both by my talent (curse?  I'm not sure) and my realization that injuries are very genre-specific.  (For instance, fantasy is always the shoulder injury, or impalation, or an arrow to the knee.) But fantasy, sci-fi, action, and crime/mystery are the only genres that I could think of when thinking about injuries in fiction.  So I decided to write a post about one question: where are the realistic injuries in contemporary fiction?  Because this is a really important question, and it's totally integral to good storywriting.  In all honesty, it was just bothering me.  So I wrote about it, of course. It's really a two-part question, though.  First of all, why aren't there injuries?  And secondly, what is a realistic injury, anyway?  For that matter, why is this even important? As to the first half, I have no idea.  I can give (first-hand!) in