My Career Goes Bung

It's so gorgeous and funny and sad and amazing. Like its prequel, one of those books that still time: you become aware, while reading, that the very first reading is a momentous occasion, that this book is going to change you. In that way, I'd class it up there with Rosamond Lehmann's 'The Weather I......more

I adore this book. Published in 1946, but written in 1902, right after 19-year-old Miles Franklin became a huge hit with 'My Brilliant Career'. Some representative quotes from our plucky protagonist, the (semi-autobiographical) young writer, Sybylla: On spoiling the earth: p66 - "His Reverence said th......more

My Career Goes Bung is the sequel to Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career, written in 1902 it wasn’t published until 1946. It is Franklin’s response to the fame and notoriety she received following the publication of her autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career in 1901. In her Foreword to this edi......more

City life and society take all the charm out of a great main character. It’s just not as enjoyable to read, and though she’s still very much a trailblazing feminist, she just seems no where near as interesting trying to fend for herself in the big city. Not to mention the fact that her suitors are a......more

This isn't terrible. But it's a sequel I wish I hadn't been tempted by – Sybylla's voice was so perfectly captured in 'My Brilliant Career' that I was content to be left wondering.......more