Musing Monday..."I Forgot to Remember to Forget" [18]

Another gray day here, but no whining, because it is Monday and we have to check out the Musing Monday question, as always from the mind of Miz B at Should Be Reading.

This week’s musing asks… What is the last book that you learned something from? What book was it, and what did it teach you?

Well, most people probably assume if you are talking about learning something from a book, you must be talking about non-fiction. And I will admit, I have learned a lot of things from books in the past. I learned how to re-do a bathroom, I learned how to crochet and I am working on how to use Photoshop Elements..all from books. Countless things, learned from books, especially in a pre-Internet world. Yes, there was a time before the Internet..

But honestly, I rarely read non-fiction these days.
So are my opportunities to learn from a book limited?
I think not!

Because in my opinion, you can and should be learning something from just about every book you read!
Take a recent example, Available Dark. Certainly fiction, but still I learned many things I never knew, about Iceland, about Death Metal Music, about photography..about all sorts of things. Even a few I could have happily lived without knowing..lol
But my point is, just about every book is an opportunity to learn.
About a different place, a different time, a different place in society, a different set of experiences...it is all there for us to learn about in books

I have, in books, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, lived in Ancient Rome, been chased by people out to kill me, I have never had tea on the lawn of and English manor house. In the span of my reading life, the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books I have read, I could not even begin to list all the things I have learned from books. Yes, it certainly is not the same experience as actually being there and actually doing those things, but still, especially in the hands of a skillful, talented writer, I strongly suggest that the experience, the chance to learn something, is very real.

Have any of you ever had this experience?
I was recently talking to a friend about something and I recalled, vaguely, an experience I had that applied to what we were talking about. And then, after a minute, I began to wonder if what I remembered was something I had personally experienced or was the vague memory from something I long ago read.
Is it that I am getting old or that my brain is full with all those many books and they are starting to spill out? I am not sure it really matters. All those books, all those things I read are part of me now.

Perhaps I need to start to remember to forget...wait, isn't that a song?

And because the Beatles are the greatest band of all time, certainly beating The Stones if you read my answers to Jenner's 11 questions last week, here is a forgotten Beatles song for your enjoyment.