DARK CANVAS

Flyboy · Getting comfortable Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 7 Gender:

I'd like to suggest a new novel. It's a romantic thriller I've read by a new author, Jody Summers. I don't know that I'd say it was the deepest book in the world but it's a dang fun read.
If you're looking for a good summer "get away" novel, Dark Canvas works nicely.

Artist

Here's the back cover as shown on Amazon:

It seems innocent enough at first, thought Kira McGovern-mixing her dead mother's ashes with paint to create a tribute painting. What a way to personalize and immortalize her mom's memory! The idea so ensnares her that she forms a new business, Canvas of Life, to do just that for others. As she begins with her first clients, something inexplicable occurs: Kira experiences segments of the dead person's life. In dreams and visions she begins to receive images, some are gratifying, some unpleasant and some of them are downright deadly.

Sean Easton is a Kansas farm boy with a special talent he is just beginning to understand. His father, too, has recently died, but something sinister still lingers on the farm. When he takes his father's ashes to Kira as a pretense to meet her, he not only falls in love but makes some startling discoveries about his own life as well, and as Kira begins to paint with Sean's father's ashes the real terror begins .

In Dark Canvas, join Kira and Sean as they realize they must quickly find the meaning and the source of her dreams and visions before both their love and their lives are destroyed.

If you want to check it out Jody's website is www.jodysummersbooks.com

Ophelia · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:42 am Post subject:

Hello, Flyboy

Thomas Hood · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

I found a copy of Ernest Becker's _Denial of Death_ yesterday, and in looking up Becker while waiting for BookTalk to load found this:

"Ashes to ashes"
http://groups.google.com/group/ernest-becker-listserv-archive/browse_t hread/thread/b742dd5380200040?hl=en#

our son's (d. 1998) and my sister-in-law's (d.
2002) ashes are in the original unopened containers in the boxes they came in
sitting in the cabinetry under our kitchen sink. Neither of us have spoken
about what else we want to do with their ashes, so they sit there year after year
unspoken of. . . .

. . . .

I'd like to have my ashes molded into little clappers for bicycle bells. I'd
contribute to safety, happy ringing, and "enjoy" one of my favorite places
to be: on a bike, enjoying the ride without polluting."

Clearly these people are trying to make good use of themselves Smile

Dark Canvas by Jody Summers
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Canvas-Jody-Summers/dp/0595454194

Flyboy has given Amazon's Product Description.

Such synchronicity. A heart of darkness this way comes. Would you care to hint at, Flyboy, in non-spoiler general terms, the sinister source?

Tom

President Camacho · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject:

What the hell.... I'm lost Surprised

What's going on here?

Thomas Hood · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

El Presidente, do not be alarmed. I shall explain. Flyboy suggested we read Dark Canvas. (I should point out that perhaps except for myself, other members of BookTalk seem to have a book they have authored and would like to promote but are too modest to do so directly. Life is full of illusions.) Ophelia, a moderator of great experience and who tries to keeps a neat house, suggests that the proposal is in the wrong forum (I think).

Dark Canvas is apparently a work of occult fiction with the ghoulish hook that one of the characters paints picture of the deceased with their own ashes. I had the odd experience of reading about a practical use for human cremains while waited for this thread to load (BookTalk has been intermittent today), and death and sinisterness melded in my permeable mind with Heart of Darkness discussion.

Now you understand all?

Tom

Flyboy · Getting comfortable Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 7 Gender:

Well, to keep it general in this case is tricky but suffice it to say that this book gravitates more towards the Dean Koontz style and rather than using the word occult, I think I'd say we are dealing with more of the paranormal or supernatural here.

Does that answer your question Thomas?

2guns

On a side note does it bother anyone else that the word 'terrorism' is misspelled in that poll on the right or is it just the anal portion of my personality trying to exert itself? Crying or Very sad

Thomas Hood · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

Oh yes, Flyboy. The Dean Koontz allusion is most helpful. Maybe something like Odd Thomas who sees and helps the dead.

Misspellings can be endearing, Flyboy. I am tolerant of misspellings as I see them as disclosing, Freudian slips. Sometimes persons neatly omit a whole quote to hide a misspelling. Maybe I'm just not concerned enough with public appearance.

Tom

Ophelia · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

Thomas Hood · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

Ophelia · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

Let's call it my creation of the day! Very Happy


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