truth in memoir

in order for a book to be non-fiction, I feel as though the entire thing should portray the truth. Because if you have a book labeled non-fiction, and in that book it says sally went down to the store to buy a chainsaw,when in relaity she only went there to buy cake, that is complete streching of the truth. So in my mind, for a book to be labeled non-fiction, the entire book must be true. I feel as though if authors bend the truth slightly, they are still lying to us. For insietence if you read a book about Ab Lincoln and its in the non-fiction section, then the books says that Abe actually never got shot in Forbs theater, you could go around beliving he was shot elsewhere. even slight variations change a whole lot of things that could change your mind set on something. I think it would help if we draw a line between fiction and non-fiction, but only because personally I do not care for non-fiction topics, because I dont care for peoples boring lives. I find it intresting that someone can sit down and write about everything that has ever happened to them, when the most exciting thing is that when they were making toast and it popped out to scare them. I think this is important because if you label a book incorrecttly then people will read it, and belive it. So by that i mean if you strech the truth in a non-fiction book, then they assume that its true because it is labeled as non-fiction.