Catherine Called Birdy

I got this book as a surprise gift for my Birthday from Cambodge Bist (My brother) and I am ever so thankful for him to give me this book!

Catherine Called Birdy:

Catherin Called Birdy was given to me by
my brother, Cambodge Bist for my
birthday! 

Catherine nicknamed Birdy lives in the year 1290, she is fourteen years old and has been suggested by her elder brother a monk called Edward to keep a dairy to help her grow ‘less childish and more learned’. She will tolerate writing her dairy only if it keeps her from doing stitching and weaving and other womanly works. The first two sentences of her dairy entry begin like this:

12^th day of September

"I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say."

The beginning of her dairy entry starts off with rebellious entries in which she writes two or three sentences summing up her day up her day. Soon afterwards, she begins to tell the account of  her days describing holidays, her fathers schemes of forcing her to marry to unpleasant men and the daily torturous chores she has to put up with. 

"Now my father, the toad, conspires to sell me like a cheese to some lack-wit seeking a wife."

She loves her mother entirely but hates the fact all she does is teach her to lady things which will help her after marriage. Marriage a word she greatly despises, ever since she has become of age she throws suitors off dismissing them in cruel ways. But not after long her father whom she also secretly calls the Toad,  finds an old ugly suitor for her, from which she cannot find a way out. She has to marry him, without pulling out any pranks, because there is no time left.  

My Opinion:

I had no idea that I would ever get a birthday present from my brother who ordered this book (again from flipkart) for me from Karnataka all the way to Delhi. It’s not his usual style, you see he rarely gives anything. I got Catherine called Birdy three weeks after my birthday, during exams but it didn’t stop me from reading it. It one of those novels you cant put down until it over so I finished it in the same day in a few hours. It ended so abruptly I didn’t know what to think of it, I was laughing a lot neat the end but there was also a tinge of pity. It was The End. There was no sequel. I wanted one.

Besides my sadness for the unexpected ending, I completely Adored it and as I have mentioned before, the books that I love are the books that I cant describe at all. The best way to describe it is by:

For the brilliant writing, awesome protagonist and cunning humor!

  

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