Catherine, Called Birdy

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Summary: My thoughts on the book Catherine, Called Birdy
Review: The book Catherine, Called Birdy is an excellent choice if you are interested in the middle ages and how everything was diferent back then. You learn about a ordinary girl and her sorrows and regrets as well as her joyfull times. You will also learn how a girl lives her life out witting suitors staying single as long as possible. Finally, an old dirty man comes and is not out witted. If you would like to learn more about this book be shure to puchase one today. This book has excellent morals. If you are a girl and loves to read this is just the book for you! If you do purchase this book I do hope you get a lot out of it and most importantly enjoy it. This book is filled with surprises and full of laughter. You discover differnt realationships between people today and people back then. For example, in this novel you will learn how Catherines dad wants nothing more than to marry off his daughter to a rich man, dads all over the world are doing and trying the same exact thing. You will also learn a little about the crazy foods they had back then and their very interesting table manors.

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Summary: Sugar Goddess' Review
Review: The novel Catherine, Called Birdy was an OK book. By OK I mean that it could have been better. The novel is about a young girl named Catherine, or Birdy, and her life over the period of 1 year. She writes a diary, and this is a novel from day to day about what she went through. I think that this novel could have been more exciting and more action filled. The novel had some interesting parts, but most of them were pretty boring. This is truelly not an action filled novel. I would recommend this novel to readers who like the more mellow, less action,not on the edge of your seat kind of book. Besides the not action filled idea, this novel was quite creative. That is what made me want to finish the novel.

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Summary: Catherine Called Birdy
Review: "Catherine Called Birdy" by Karen Cushman is a GREAT novel! If you like diary formed novels you should read this novel.This novel is placed in the Middle Ages. Catherine lives with her father a knight. Catherine also known as Birdy is a very unique teenager who can do whatever she puts her mind to.Catherine is determined to get rid of any person that she doesn't want to marry by using tricks or being rude. Catherine's father trys to marry Catherine off to any person who will take her. Her father treets Catherine like a peice of land for money.Catherine will not say yes to anyone who asks her to marry him. In this story Catherine tries to get rid of anyone her father finds to marry her. If you like to read diaries you should read this book "Catherine Called Birdy".This book does not take a long tome to read and you will enjoy it like I did.

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Summary: Catherine Called Birdy
Review: Catherine, Called Birdy is a GREAT book. This story is placed in the Middle Ages, where Catherine,also known as Birdy lives with her father (knight). Catherine hardly likes her father, her father is trying to marry Catherine off like a peice of land, to anyone who will take her (such as a Suitor).Catherine is determined to try to get rid of any one her father finds to get her off his back for money.If you like a book in diary form you should read this book that I relly enjoyed reading in less then 3 weeks.

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Summary: This was a great book!
Review: I read this book within one day, and I liked it a lot. In fact, I loved it. Catherine is a country knight's daughter, whose father is determined to "sell her off like a cheese to some Lack Wit Suitor". She does plenty of antics to get rid of her suitors. Setting fire to a privy is just one of them. She is almost crushed when her best friend, Aelis, falls in love with her uncle, George. She is worried that she has spoiled their love, when she puts a curse on the love. Catherine is a born Female Rights Activist. She is my dream of a damsel, who is not in distress, but giving it to someone. I would like to change this book just a bit. I hate the fact that she found her brother and the launderess "snuggled up together in the hay",a nd that fact that she wants to "piss in the fire to make it hiss" just like a boy. These gruesome details were just too much, but Catherine lives it all. She finally ends up realizing that her life isn't just about "lady lessons", but about a lot more. I would reccommend it to girls from the age of ten to fourteen.

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Summary: A Young Woman Ahead of Her Time
Review: Young Catherine, known by her nickname Birdy, is a very independent thinking young woman for the world in which she lives, that of 11th century medieval England. She writes in her daily journal, telling us of her life, her pets, her home, her drunken father, her good and gentle mother, her older brother and her many siblings, which her mother seems condemed to continue producing year after year. Even though Catherine is very much a young woman of her times, she also agonizes about the restrictions placed on her because she is female. Through her journal and her many adventures reflected therein, she is perceived as a thoroughly spirited soul. When she is betrothed in an arranged marriage to a loathsome man who she refuses to marry, it seems that she will finally be trapped in the societal dictates of her time. But Birdy says, "...I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am." How will she triumph over this seeming dilemma? This wonderful book allows young readers to experience the medieval world through the eyes of a young girl. Readers see the medieval world as it was, full of danger, disease and ignorance. Yet readers also experience medieval life for its inevitable joys - the music, festivals and the many simple pleasures of life enjoyed even today. This is an excellent book in a very readable and enjoyable style, which young readers will enjoy for its universal appeal and its approach to what it was like to live in the medieval world.

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Summary: Pretty Good Book!
Review: "Catherine, Called Birdy" is a book about a teenage girl in the middle of the 13th century. Her father tries to marry her off to some rich man so that he can get rich fast. However, Catherine always manages to get out of it, that is until Shaggy Beard comes to propose to her. Then she realized that she had met her match. She thinks she can get out of marrying Shaggy Beard until he gives her a silver comb. She has to sell it so that she can save a captive bear from complete misery. This is a pretty good book because it is about a girl who has a mind of her own. The book was interesting because I liked the characters and their medieval times.

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Summary: KAREN CUSHMEN AT HER BEST!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! It was so funny. Catherine is a comedian. She does not act like other girls from her time period. Catherine always wants HER WAY and she'll complain as much as she wants otherwise. Karen Cushman gave Catherine real wit and her wit was quite entertaining!

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Summary: Catherine, Called Birdy
Review: The book Catherine, Called Birdy was written in the form of a diary, making the story in the view of the main character. Like many other books written by Karen Cushman, it was during the medieval period. Catherine was often told to act "lady-like" by her traditional mother. Her mother was the one who mostly scolded her for her rude behavior. Catherine was jealous of the village people and anyone else that didn't have to stay inside and sew. She always wanted to do more adventurous things. Catherine was in her late teens and her parents wanted her to marry soon. As men stayed in their home and ate dinner with their family, Catherine always managed to scare the men away. Does Catherine eventually find a man that she seems as charming and fun? To find out, you should read Catherine, Called Birdy, the story of a girl who is forced to marry and that might find someone that suits her.

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Summary: Wasn't all that great
Review: I was disapointed in this book because I read it after The Midwifes Apprentice. It was boring and hard to get into. It was confusing and I didn't follow it half the time. I hope Cushman does better next time.