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Non-fiction, Fiction, Memoirs, all “labels”. Books have labels on them because they aren’t all the same, There’s something about each one that makes it unique. We all take something from a book, we don’t memorize all of it, we take the most important parts, the parts that stick with us. Some of the most special parts in a book to us may be fact or fiction but who ever said that it was bad to hold onto something that’s not true, it just makes everything intertwine together. Fact and fiction come together ; there isn’t one without the other. Nonfiction… how true, 80/20, if the author adds half-truths it enhances the book. As long as there isn’t a specified identifiable personal opinion within it, one really just need to “go with it” because if a nonfiction book didn’t have half-truths it would be pretty boring to read. Reading between the lines and bending the truth makes a memoir that much more relatable. Memoirs are supposed to be relatable to the readers, at least they should be. One of the most interesting autobiography memoirs I’ve read is titled A Dog’s Life. What I find so fascinating about this book is that it’s written from a dog’s point of view, in her perspective, a stray dog, telling us about her experience and the most breathtaking thing about it is that the reader can feel what she’s talking about even though it’s a dog. Obviously a dog didn’t write the story, but it is a memoir in the perspective of a dog.  If we don’t have fact and fiction together what do we have? Bend the truth… bring out something creative but keep the facts and just bring them together, it’s not a crime, it’s a blessing to the book.