Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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May 01
Book Review – Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn This book started as a 5 and ended as a 3. I’d read Flynn’s other two books, and expected something deeply dark and nasty and twisted, with an ending even more unexpectedly nasty. It starts out with Camille, a beautiful woman whom we suspect (and later confirm) is deeply broken. …
Apr 29
Jellyfish cup
I made this cup because I wanted to use the cool mold that puts regular grids of airbubbles in to your vessel. I used a solid chunk of lavender glass, because I also wanted to have a solid color, but the lavender comes out much, much lighter than I expected. A number of things went …
Apr 28
Book Review: Travels in a Thin Country
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile by Sara Wheeler What I want from a travel book is to feel as if I have taken the journey along with the author. This book succeeds in this, and it also makes me dearly wish that I could take a similar journey. Well, maybe not …
Apr 22
Broken Orange Bubbled Cup
I made this cup using a chunk of color that a fellow student named Kitty generously gave me. I went back and forth on what I was going to do with it. I love blue and orange and yellow together, or even blue and orange, but in the end I decided that I wanted …
Apr 17
Book Review – To Your Scattered Bodies Go
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer I really wanted to like this book. Before I started listening to it, all I knew was that it was the first in a series by a science fiction “master” whom I hadn’t read before. It starts out a little dry, but the narrator did a …