Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Feb 25
I had created the little gingerbread house to use for the new book cover for my short stories and Jeremy took some great photos, but the photos weren’t the right size so we had to re-shoot. It took a few weeks to schedule the second shooting, so I had time to redesign the house to …
Feb 22
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto A friend handed me this, not telling me what to expect, and it turned out to be a very literary novel. It’s not really a novel, per se., but three long short stories or short novellas all on the theme of sleeping. The first short story is about a woman worried …
Feb 18
I made this because I wanted to do a new cover for a pair of short stories I was republishing, one of which is “Gingerbread House.” My current strategy for book covers is “make something cool and take a picture of it” so I made a batch of dough and created a pattern out of …
Feb 12
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I read this book because it had been mentioned in many bibliographies of books I’ve read in the past couple of years, and because people who have read it said it was amazing. Basically, it talks about how most people feel happiness when they are completely engaged in what they are …
Feb 07
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins I listened to this book on the recommendation of someone at Audible, who said I would like it on account of I liked THE POISONER’S HANDBOOK. I did like it, but I can’t say …
