Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Book Review: The Magician King

The Magician King by Lev Grossman I have mixed feelings about this book. In some ways it’s a stupendous literary achievement. In other ways, it’s a thought problem of what would happen in real life if you min-maxed to get intelligence modifiers by using charisma as a dump stat. Or, to clarify for those of …

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Heart Mirror Icon

I made this because I wanted to spend the afternoon doing art, and playing with polymer clay is a good one-day project. I have a book on making mosaics and mosaic tiles from polymer clay that I have been using as inspiration for a while.  I especially liked the icon images, which I took from …

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Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Horizon (#4)

Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold This is the fourth book of the series, and the conclusion. Really for truly the conclusion, which gets it big points in my ledger. As a whole I think this series is well worth reading. While the worldbuilding wasn’t vastly creative, it was different enough that it didn’t bore me. …

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Blue-Green Glass Vase

I tried to show a co-worker this vase I made, but I couldn’t find any posts of it. Did I miss a whole kiln-full of glasswork I did this winter? Maybe. I had two of these but gave one away. It looked very similiar to this, but had a shorter neck.