Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Jun 01
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand It’s almost impossible to read this book with an unbiased mind. It seems that almost everyone has heard of this book and either loves it or hates it. I have one friend who named this as his favorite book, and I had another friend who blamed this book for ruining …
May 17
Moon Dance by J.R. Rain I got this as an audiobook as a cure for some of the drier nonfiction I’ve been listening to. It’s about what you’d expect of an urban fantasy. The protagonist is a vampire private investigator soccer mom named Samantha Moon. She’s asked to investigate the attempted murder of a man …
May 02
What’s Eating You?: People and Parasites by Eugene H. Kaplan For some reason, I thought this book would be funnier. Why would a book about parasites be funny? Maybe because I associate parasites with travel horror stories, and travel horror stories are almost always hilarious. It does manage to be funny at parts, but mostly …
Apr 24
This is an altered book that I started a while ago. I’d been using different pages for different techniques, but I’d left this page, with the three cut-out alcoves alone. I wanted to work with the juxtaposition of teal with that apricot color. I love these two colors together. First I took the blue art …
Apr 23
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson This is a story which has not often been told, the story of America’s internal migration of black southerners to the west, midwest, and north-east during the first half of the twentieth century. Because I got this as an audiobook, …
