Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Dec 30
Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee I was really excited about this book because, like many people, I read To Kill a Mockingbird and thought it was brilliant. It always seemed a mystery to me that a writer could write one book, and only one book, and have it that good. Well, some of …
Dec 18
Book Review: The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, And A Spool Of Thread by Kate DiCamillo I had thought this was a middle-grade book, but it reads as being suitable for an even younger audience. I could see reading this to a six-year-old, if you happened to have a …
Dec 03
Book Review: When You Reach Me
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead I got this book on my shelf, and I don’t even remember buying it, but I accidentally stumbled across one of the best middle-grade books I can remember reading in a long time. It starts out dark and mysterious, with notes that predict things about Miranda’s life that …
Dec 01
Book Review: Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I read THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, and was blown away by how spot-on the English butler felt, so I picked this up, having no idea what it was about. It took me a good half a chapter before I realized there was anything science-fiction or dystopian about …
Nov 25
Book Review: How We Got to Now
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson The closest I’ve read to a book like this was Michael Pollen’s THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, though that book had to do with plants and how they impacted human societies and this has to do with technologies and how they …