Catherine, Called Birdy | 
my #bookspinbingo board for march
#bookspin: catherine, called birdy
#doublespin: pippi longstocking
with mostly short books, clearing the board has never been more doable. 🤞🏻
"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."
I had no idea this book was adapted into a film! I just watched it and loved it as much as I did the book. Bella was perfect for this character. YouTube trailer here: https://youtu.be/fPiztxYR9sU
Currently on Amazon.
Shown: a fate Birdy was trying to avoid!
The movie is coming soon, so I need to read the book ASAP.
pickReally enjoyed this book. Catherine‘s narration cracked me up. If I had read this as a teenager, it might have become one of my favourite books. More fool me for not picking it up at that time!
#BookSpinBingo December 2022 #DoubleSpin
pickI remember always seeing this book around as a 90s kid, but never picked it up (no dragons). Seeing the new adaptation coming out starring Bella Ramsey, I had to finally give it a try! Birdy is a headstrong, mischievous 14-year-old lady in a small manor in 13th Century England whose father is forcing her to wed against her will. Birdy has such a singular, hilarious, wry, powerful voice, and this is an incredible way to experience medieval life!
Newbery Honor winner Catherine, Called Birdy is kind of a beginner‘s guide to feminism, and it covers so many BIG topics — childbirth, agency, domestic abuse, diversity, consent, and the patriarchy. I TOTALLY didn‘t get this as a kid. My guest and I discuss it all on this week‘s episode of my podcast! 🎧 Link to listen in bio.
Here are 18 for my #19of2019. I didn't have room for Heather Havrilesky's What If This Were Enough.
I like this list. I like that it represents my various reading moods: children's lit, contemporary fiction,.classics, essays, memoir,.and other nonfiction. Thanks for asking @BarbaraBB and @Centique Always fun to make a list! 😁
so-so⭐⭐⭐
I liked the history, and journal entry writing style. It's an entertaining story, but Catherine constantly taking the Lord's name in vain, ruined it for me.
#MiddleGradeMay
#historicalfiction
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Started this last night - enjoying it immensely, except for the fleas.
pickMy first 5 🌟 read of 2019!
Written as a journal by 14-year-old Catherine, called Birdy in 1290. Each day, she enters whose feast day it is (and how they became a saint), records her own misadventures, and complains of the general unfairness of her life. (Needlework is the bane of her existence! Also suitors!) She is feisty and funny and has a kind heart. It made me laugh, and by the end, it made me cry, too. Highly recommend the audio version.
Well, this book is an absolute delight! It's made me laugh out loud more than a few times! Audiopuzzling. Doesn't my non-helper look comfy? 😸
"I have noticed lately how many male saints were bishops, popes, missionaries, great scholars, and teachers, while female saints get to be saints mostly by being someone's mother or refusing to marry some powerful pagan. It is plain that men are in charge of making saints."
pickAnother great read from this author. I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed the phrases and pronunciation of the time. I‘m not religious, but also liked the tidbits of info about the Saints each day that Catherine wrote in her diary. The matter-of-fact belief that Catherine has in what we now know is superstition is spot on. I wish I had this book when I was the target audience. 4/5⭐️s
#aprilbookshowers Day 13: sequel please
I've always wanted to know what happened to her and Stephen
pickAs someone obsessed with both history and Catholic saints, this book was right in my wheelhouse.
"Onions have layers. Ogres have layers."
#TBT Omgggg Catherine called Birdy! Clearly, I loved this book. Karen Cushman is fantastic @PennyNotSoDreadful
Reading this classic for the first time and already cackling.
