Paperback, used good. Ordered from BWB for HGG-2014. Will start its journey to Austria soon.

The book's journey continues by its finder's cooperation and creativity. By making a journal entry on this book, you can add to the book's story as it travels from reader to reader around the world.

Message from the book:
Holy moly! It's me... it's me! I can't believe it is actually me! You could have picked any of over half a million books but you picked me! I've got to get packed! How is the weather where you live? Will I need a dust jacket? I can't believe I'm leaving Dunfermline, Scotland already!

I can't wait to meet you! You sound like such a well read person. Although, I have to say, it sure has taken you a while! I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but how would you like to spend five months sandwiched between Jane Eyre (drama queen) and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (pyromaniac)? At least Jane was an upgrade from that stupid book on brewing beer. How many times did the ol' brewmaster have one too many and topple off our shelf at 2am?

20 October 2014: The book arrived today. Thank you very much for fulfilling this wish. What a perfect timing - it´s like a reward for my efforts the last weeks. Because today I had my diploma examination ... and I passed it! :-)) I´m so relieved.

Blurb: Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man - any rich man, no matter how awful. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call - by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Unfortunately, he is also the richest. Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of father? Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!

May 2017: I finally read the little book. It is written as a diary of Catherine of the year 1290. It was an entertaining and light reading. More than once I thought: "How lucky I am that I live in much better circumstances."

The book is finally on the way to alexotanil (Greece) who has chosen it from the "Young Adult VBB".

The book is in my hands now. Seems interesting. Thanks!

Posting it to Alerion.

The book is in my hands. It sounds funny and easy to read. I will give it a try probably. Thanks alexotanil!

Well a funny and easy book to read. It belongs afterall to the young adult category.

It is the diary of an imaginary girl living in England of 1290. She is fourteen years old and obliged to write a diary as a way to mature.

The idea is funny and the heroine clever and witty. Otherwise it is nothing amazing. I kept thinking that paper would have been too expensive at the time to spend it on stupid notes by a teenager.

:)

Considering it is a young adult book, it is OK. Not bad but also nothing extraordinary.
It is nicely written, I can see how it could interest a young reader. At the same time, I felt that Catherine was portrayed not as a girl of a her time, but a girl closer to our time. Not her rebellious character (I do believe that such women existed) but the way she writes. It felt out of date, more twentieth century adolescent that a young woman in 1290.