I believe that if a book wants to be a memoir about someones life, then it would need to be at least 90-100% correct. I say this because different events can be stretched a tad to make the book seem more interesting, or the author's memory was a bit off and they can't remember the details of an event so the make something up. Some events that can be altered are things that have happened but won't change the plot or the subject of the story, or small details about how something looks, I'm not saying that if you live in a decent house and your life is a regular one that you can change that to make you live in a small rundown cottage on the brink of falling apart, because that will change how your character will see life. You are the character, but if you change details like that you won't be that character anymore, it will be someone else playing a false you.
David Shields is wrong, from my perspective. It matters to have the books labeled as certain genres because if you are looking for a certain book and you know it is a Romantic Comedy, you can just narrow down the search to a specific group. You don't have to have a book that is just one genre, you can mix them together and get a sub genre to correlate the book to. You can have a romantic comedy, instead of just a romantic book. The genre isn't limited to just one category and labeling books in certain categories of genres can and will help you find a book you like faster.
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