Friday, February 20, 2009

The Truth and Nothing but.....

I've had a lot of fun this month helping my local public library inventory their shelves. What better way to add to my ever-growing TBR list, than to take every single book off the shelf at the library:) I was in the non-fiction section a couple days ago; somewhere in the crafting/paper arts area; when a school group came through on a little tour of the library. The woman leading the group, I assume was a teacher, because I didn't recognize her as library staff. "Where are we now?", she asked. "Non-fiction", everyone replied (they were actually paying attention!). "Right. Non-Fiction means that the book is true. Fiction means it's not true.". Ohhh, I really wanted to raise my hand and question that statement, because I'm thinking, I don't know that that's necessarily true..... For example, I had just finished up in the always entertaining self-help section of the non-fiction shelves, where I saw this title: How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About it. And just today, I ran across this one: Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier. Now call me a pessimist, but I'm fairly certain that that's not true.

I'm just sayin'....

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