{"id":6035,"date":"2014-05-15T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2014-05-15T01:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T06:31:30","slug":"lost-in-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/lost-in-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51lJu1zSLBL._SL250_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1935462946\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1935462946&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=6UCSOFPODHDIEZJG\">Lost in Thought<\/a> (Sententia)<br \/>\nby Cara Bertrand (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Lainey Young has a secret: she&#8217;s going crazy. Everyone else thinks she has severe migraines from stress and exhaustion. What she really has are visions of how people died&#8211;or are going to die. Not that she tells anyone that. At age 16, she prefers keeping her crazy to herself. When doctors insist she needs a new and stable environment to recover, Lainey&#8217;s game to spend two years at a private New England boarding school. She doesn&#8217;t really think it will cure her problem, and she&#8217;s half right. There is no cure, but as she discovers, she&#8217;s not actually crazy. <\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone at Northbrook Academy has a secret too. Half the students and nearly all the staff are members of the Sententia, a hidden society of the psychically gifted. A vision of another student&#8217;s impending death confirms Lainey is one of them. She&#8217;d like to return the crappy gift of divining deaths with only a touch, but enjoys spending time with Carter Penrose&#8211;recent Academy graduate and resident school crush&#8211;while learning to control it. Lainey&#8217;s finally getting comfortable with her ability, and with Carter, when they uncover her true Sententia heritage. Now she has a real secret. <\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s spilled, she&#8217;ll be forced to forget protecting secrets and start protecting herself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> I saw visions of how they died. Most only lasted a few seconds, a handful were gruesome, and I swore some of them were visions of how people were <em>going<\/em> to die. They would come with no warning except dizziness, usually right after I&#8217;d touched someone or something, and were followed by a severe headache. If I was lucky, I even fainted too, in betweent the vision and the migraine. <\/p>\n<p>If someone were telling me this story, I&#8217;d probably have laughed at them. In fact, I knew I would, which is why I absolutely couldn&#8217;t bring myself to tell the doctors and especially not the psychologists.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Site Meter\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in Thought (Sententia) by Cara Bertrand (Author) Booktalk: Lainey Young has a secret: she&#8217;s going crazy. Everyone else thinks she has severe migraines from stress and exhaustion. What she really has are visions of how people died&#8211;or are going to die. Not that she tells anyone that. 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