Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Feb 21
Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide by Bob Harris Although this book is by now almost ten years out of date, it’s a fun introduction to world conflicts for the sort of people (like me) who always feel like watching the news is like coming …
Jan 27
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher I liked this book. I read the first one a few years ago and found it fine, but nothing special, but so many of my friends and family adore this series that I decided to give the series a second chance. I have a weird relationship with urban fantasy. It’s …
Jan 23
Hawthorn Hex by Kater Cheek My rating: 5 of 5 stars When a vampire does blood magic and destroys the existing ward around the city, the Guild Leader tells Kit to create a new ward that doesn’t have the old ward’s weakness. No one has done a ward like this, and the only one who …
Jan 13
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates If the point of a book is to experience the world from another’s viewpoint, just for a little while, this book succeeds. It’s short, around 150 pages in the hardback, and it takes the frame of a father’s letter to his son. It’s dark enough that I …
