{"id":394,"date":"2016-09-16T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/?p=394"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:02:44","slug":"what-im-reading-mind-over-mind-by-karina-fabian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/what-im-reading-mind-over-mind-by-karina-fabian\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Mind Over Mind by Karina Fabian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mind-Over-Karina-L-Fabian\/dp\/1897942362\">Mind Over Mind by Karina Fabian<\/a><br \/>\nDragon Moon Press<br \/>\nCategory: Young Adult<br \/>\nGenre: Science Fiction<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/fabianspace.com\">http:\/\/fabianspace.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fabianspace.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-400\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MindoverMind_Cover-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"mindovermind_cover\" width=\"123\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MindoverMind_Cover-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MindoverMind_Cover-768x1184.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MindoverMind_Cover-664x1024.jpg 664w, http:\/\/dawnwitzke.com\/CatholicUnderground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MindoverMind_Cover.jpg 1641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s Mischa. This week I have a book about aliens and an interplanetary war. It&#8217;s Mind over Mind by Karina Fabian. It&#8217;s the first book in the Mind Over Series. check it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Deryl Stephen\u2019s uncontrollable telepathic abilitieshave landed him in a mental health institution, where no one believes in his powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But when Joshua Lawson, a student of neuro linguistic programming, takes part in a summer internship, he takes the unique step of accepting Deryl\u2019s reality and teaches him to work with it. As Deryl learns control, he finds his next challenge is to face the aliens who have been contacting him psychically for years\u2014aliens who would use him to further their cause in an interplanetary war.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"mind over mind\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wvr5ZicV2xs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cObviously. Did Edith tell you about the one time they did release me? The first thing I did was smash all the bottles in my uncle\u2019s liquor cabinet because the butler\u2014yes, Joshua, they have a butler\u2014is an alcoholic and was obsessing on it, had been obsessing on it for years. It was that or drink myself stupid, just because he wanted to. That was nothing. My aunt took me<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">shopping. All those people, all those thoughts\u2026It was like ants crawling in my skull. I was just managing to ignore them, and I felt this woman screaming\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c\u2019Felt?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYeah, felt. Inside my head. I couldn\u2019t help it. I snuck away from my aunt, followed the thoughts\u2014she was so scared!\u2014I found her in a part of the mall that was being renovated. This guy had her pinned. He was going to\u2014\u201d Ydrel broke off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d Joshua asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ydrel shivered. \u201cBeat him unconscious. Then I tried to knock myself out, too. See, he was so full of hate, and he wanted to\u2014 So I did, too. And the girl tried to stop me and I yelled at her and scared her all over again and I tried to run but the police showed up. So I ended up back here, where the environment, at least, is controlled, even if it isn\u2019t exactly normal. Even then, it\u2019s not always safe for me. Sometimes, Malachai puts someone in the room next to me\u2026to study my reaction, sometimes to punish me.\u201d He looked up and his eyes were wide with fear. \u201cI\u2019ve got to get out of here, Joshua. It\u2019s not safe for me anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joshua was beginning to think it wasn\u2019t safe for him either. The last thing he needed on his internship was to get caught up in some problem between a patient he wasn\u2019t supposed to be taking on, and the head of the institution\u2014a friend of his father. Still\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Earlier, when Ydrel had laughed at the idea of Joshua helping him, Joshua had moved his arm in a very deliberate way. Now he used that same motion to recall those feelings of hope and interest Ydrel had expressed. He waited as Ydrel calmed, watching him take a shaky breath and release his hold on his hair, his fingers running through the length, before he spoke again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe\u2019ll work on it, Ydrel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The younger man nodded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cOK. You have some barriers. You\u2019ve said that they work sometimes. I want you to think about one thing that keeps you here that your current barriers don\u2019t protect you from.\u201d He couldn\u2019t see Ydrel\u2019s eyes, for the patient had shut them, but waited for other cues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhen my barriers work sometimes, or not at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYour choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe Miscria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYou don\u2019t have to tell\u2014the what?\u201d Curiosity got the better of him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe Miscria. It calls me, and when it does, I can\u2019t help it\u2014I fall into this trance. I can be doing anything, even walking, and just\u2014boom. Then I have to tell it everything it wants to know before it lets me go with some new assignment, and for weeks I\u2019m studying God-knows-what until it calls me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cYou\u2019ve lost me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cInformation, Joshua.\u201d Ydrel opened his eyes and waved impatiently to the pile of books on his desk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joshua walked over and examined the covers. \u201cThe Miscria wants to know military history?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTactics. Swordsmithing. Triage. Medieval fortress architecture. So I go cra\u2014I have to learn everything I can about the subject, and it just wants more. At least we have a good librarian. He humors me, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joshua set down the book he was leafing through: Eye in the Sky, A Warfighter\u2019s Guide to Space Reconnaissance, by Felix Monroe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSo this \u2018Miscria\u2019 calls you, you pass out in your oatmeal, and you tell it everything you know about whatever subject it\u2019s told you to study? So&#8230;ever refuse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ydrel blinked. \u201cI\u2014 But it needs to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhy? Ever ask it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now Ydrel sat forward, dumbfounded. \u201cI\u2026 It never occurred to me to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cHow about going inside yourself and asking it now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ydrel shut his eyes, furrowed his brow. Joshua stayed standing by the desk, watching the young man first tense completely, then seem to relax every muscle, much the way someone under hypnosis would relax while remaining straight in their seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Several minutes passed in silence before Ydrel shook his head. \u201cI can\u2019t. It has to call me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThen that\u2019s your first assignment. When it calls you, try this: \u00a0First, see if you can establish some kind of arrangement so that it doesn\u2019t call you at inconvenient times\u2014you decide together what that means. Second, find out more about it, like why it needs this information so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhat if it refuses?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThat\u2019s really up to you. Myself, I\u2019d hold out. Blackmail can work wonders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ydrel met his eyes in a steady gaze, not challenging and not trying to see into him, yet searching. \u201cYou don\u2019t believe me about the Miscria, do you? You think it\u2019s some weird part of my unconscious. You don\u2019t believe it\u2019s an outside entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joshua moved his hand as part of a shrug. It was a visual anchor he\u2019d used many times and it was a natural movement for him. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter either way. The process works the same. Just give it a try. You don\u2019t have anything to lose.\u201d A yawn escaped his mouth, surprising him. He hadn\u2019t realized he was so tired. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I\u2019m beat. Finish that drink off, if you want it, and go to bed. I\u2019ll see ya in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He started for the door when Ydrel called him back. \u201cAre we going to be friends? I mean, regardless of what Edith asked you to do?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He regarded him for a moment, a spoiled and snarky kid dealing with something he didn\u2019t think he could control. Josh could help him; he knew that. But be friends?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then he thought about how this spoiled kid had jumped up to protect the nurse he considered the one good person in his life. There was definitely more to him than met the eye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joshua smiled. \u201cYeah, Ydrel. I think we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you read this book already? Tell us what you thought of it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Over Mind by Karina Fabian Dragon Moon Press Category: Young Adult Genre: Science Fiction Website: http:\/\/fabianspace.com Hey, it&#8217;s Mischa. This week I have a book about aliens and an interplanetary war. It&#8217;s Mind over Mind by Karina Fabian. 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