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You Just Can’t Make These Things Up!

22 Sunday Jan 2017

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Humor, New Phrases When You Don't Want To Admit You're Lying

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Last night White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave his first press briefing where he combatively chastised reporters for lying about crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s inauguration and insisted “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration–period–both in person and around the globe!” The following is an exchange this morning on Meet the Press between host, Chuck Todd and new adviser to Mr. Trump, Kellyanne Conway:

Conway: “On this matter of crowd size, I think it is a symbol of the unfair and incomplete treatment that this president often receives.”

Todd: “You did not answer the question of why the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day one.”

Conway: “No it doesn’t. Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and they’re giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”

Todd: Wait a minute. Alternative facts? Alternative facts? Four out of five facts he uttered were just not true!”

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 Yes. We have truly fallen down the rabbit hole folks! I don’t know if I feel more like this:

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Or this:

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Does anyone want to place bets on the phrase “alternative facts” being added to the dictionary by the end of 2017?

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**UPDATE**

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Merriam-Webster just responded via Twitter by reminding everyone *Cough, cough. That means YOU Kelleyanne!* that: “A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality.” Hmm. Maybe Kelleyanne was thinking of FACTICIDE which the folks at Merriam-Webster defines as “perversion of fact” or “a perverter of fact”.

Rest In Piece ~ By B.W. Ginsburg – 3.5 Stars

22 Sunday Jan 2017

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Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Fiction, Suspense

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166 Pages

Synopsis: Though decades apart, two young girls are connected in a way that is both fantastical and surreal. When twelve year old Louise Erickson finds out that she holds the key to saving a nine year old who disappeared twenty years earlier, she decides to accept the challenge. Will Louise be able to rescue the girl and the others locked away with her before it’s too late?

Rest in Piece is the debut novel by one of our fellow WordPress bloggers, B.W. Ginsburg, which made me even more excited to read and review it. After finishing, I’d say this is written for tweens. While I didn’t find it a perfect read, it was still fun and enjoyable. The action begins on the very first page and keeps the story moving forward at a pretty fast pace right up until its exciting ending. The storyline is highly imaginative and intriguing with two girls being connected over decades to each other through a mysterious and sinister puzzle. To be honest, the story is actually much better than the synopsis suggests. There were just two main issues I had reading this. The first concerned the characters’ voices, which I didn’t feel were distinctive enough from each other enough. The second concerned the actual world-building which took on more of a “telling” element rather than “showing”. Because of this I had difficulty feeling as though I was “in” the story. Overall though, I think Rest in Piece is a promising debut and it’s one that if I were still a children’s librarian, I’d be recommending to my young patrons who love a good paranormal mystery/adventure. I want to give kudos to B.W. on her debut and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what she comes out with next!

*B.W. has two fun and informative blogs that I highly recommend visiting if you haven’t already.

http://restinpieceblog.wordpress.com

http://gettingthroughanxiety.wordpress.com

 

 

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