My Brilliant Career
11 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Classic story (set in the Australian outback) of a young woman following her dreams rather than do as she was told.I love the book, I love the movie.
From Amazon: In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW, where the most that girls could hope for was to marry or to teach. Sybylla will do neither, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier.
Some Trivia:
Banned by the author from republication for 10 yrs after her death in 1954, the book was originally published in Edinburgh in 1901.
The objections were not based on doubt about the merit of the book, but on the distress she felt when a work of fiction was taken to be direct autobiography. Much of it, is clearly based on fact; but obviously the facts have been changed, enlarged, dramatized, and lit with imagination to make a work of art.
The Miles Franklin award was set up under the terms of the will of the late Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the famed Australian author who died in September 1954. It is given annually for the novel or play of the highest literary merit, presenting aspects of Australian life, and published during the preceding year. The award is administered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney, and is currently worth $42,000.
For a list of winners of the Award, click HERE
Journal Entry 2 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, January 12, 2005
I have just started re-reading this book, but I have more pressing reading to get through; therefore I was hoping to get a Book Ring up and running for this book....
This is just a small, vintage, paperback copy so will be cheap-ish to post along.
The list so far:
1. Wirigerie, South Aust, Aust post preferred
2. Binkybuffy, South Aust, will ship anywhere
3. d-o-m, UK, will ship anywhere
4. MarciNYC, USA, will ship anywhere
5. sqdancer, Canada, will ship anywhere
6. Lillyanna, Spain, Euro postage only
7. Kiki66, Germany, will ship anywhere 8. Chich, France, will ship anywhere
9. Deadsteen, USA, prefers US postage but can ship Intl if necessary
10. Queensknob, USA – prefers US postage but can ship economy overseas
11. Aussieangel2, West Aust, Aust post preferred
etc ... and back to me in Perth.
I have PM'd Wirigerie for their address and this book will be posted as soon as I have the details & then the ring will be under way! I'm so glad we have people involved from all corners of the globe!
This is just a small, vintage, paperback copy so will be cheap-ish to post along.
The list so far:
1. Wirigerie, South Aust, Aust post preferred
2. Binkybuffy, South Aust, will ship anywhere
3. d-o-m, UK, will ship anywhere
4. MarciNYC, USA, will ship anywhere
5. sqdancer, Canada, will ship anywhere
6. Lillyanna, Spain, Euro postage only
7. Kiki66, Germany, will ship anywhere 8. Chich, France, will ship anywhere
9. Deadsteen, USA, prefers US postage but can ship Intl if necessary
10. Queensknob, USA – prefers US postage but can ship economy overseas
11. Aussieangel2, West Aust, Aust post preferred
etc ... and back to me in Perth.
I have PM'd Wirigerie for their address and this book will be posted as soon as I have the details & then the ring will be under way! I'm so glad we have people involved from all corners of the globe!
Journal Entry 3 by miss-gonewest at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, February 10, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (2/9/2005 UTC) at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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My Brilliant Career has been posted today to Wirigerie in South Australia as part of the above book ring.
I look forward to reading all the journal entries and following the book's progress around the world.
My Brilliant Career has been posted today to Wirigerie in South Australia as part of the above book ring.
I look forward to reading all the journal entries and following the book's progress around the world.
Arrived in the mail today.
The bookmark is a brilliant idea and I love the way you've listed each of the participants on it.
Will dive into this one straight away as I've just posted off my previous ring.
The bookmark is a brilliant idea and I love the way you've listed each of the participants on it.
Will dive into this one straight away as I've just posted off my previous ring.
I'm glad that I've finally read this Australian classic.
I found it very hard going. Sybylla is self centred as any 16 year old. I felt for her being born at a time where her mind was not able to be recognised and put to a better use simply because she was a girl.
I loved the portraits she drew of the bush. I reconised it from my own times in it and really in 100 years it hasn't changed a lot. The heat, the flies, the kookaburras and wattle are still the same.
The back of the book says: "There is something Bronteish about this account of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of NSW" and I think this may go someway to explain the trouble I had with it.
I did wonder though if Sybylla's protestations against Harold's wedding proposal weren't because the poor girl was gay but had no words to describe her condition and not the slightest notion of the state even if there were the words in her vocabulary. I don't think the man she says she wants ever existed beyond what Harold Beecham was so if she wanted a man, Harold was it.
Still, I've read it and am glad to have done so.
Thanks to Miss-GoneWest for the opportunity. :)
I found it very hard going. Sybylla is self centred as any 16 year old. I felt for her being born at a time where her mind was not able to be recognised and put to a better use simply because she was a girl.
I loved the portraits she drew of the bush. I reconised it from my own times in it and really in 100 years it hasn't changed a lot. The heat, the flies, the kookaburras and wattle are still the same.
The back of the book says: "There is something Bronteish about this account of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of NSW" and I think this may go someway to explain the trouble I had with it.
I did wonder though if Sybylla's protestations against Harold's wedding proposal weren't because the poor girl was gay but had no words to describe her condition and not the slightest notion of the state even if there were the words in her vocabulary. I don't think the man she says she wants ever existed beyond what Harold Beecham was so if she wanted a man, Harold was it.
Still, I've read it and am glad to have done so.
Thanks to Miss-GoneWest for the opportunity. :)
Passed on to Binkybuffy at our own minimeet up at Castle Plaza today.
Nice to meet you and I hope we can have another meetup when I return your books.
Nice to meet you and I hope we can have another meetup when I return your books.
Met Wirigerie today and she passed me the book as my name was on the bookring list next. Will read and give my comments then and post it on to the next person as soon as possible.Enjoyed the meet up with Wirigerie today it was the first bookcrosser I have met in person.
I enjoyed the book, she was so strongminded but not for her own good,which was a pity. I wish it has ended different, but I like a book that is different to what you think. I sent it on to the UK to the next person this morning. I also like the bookmark idea and put another one in so the next person can keep it. I sent it airmail economy so it shouldnt take too long it is now out of Australia. Thanks for the good read miss-gonewest.
Received today. That didn't take too long. I will be able to start it in a week or so.
Thoroughly enjoyable! A remarkable novel considering when it was written. I didn't sympathize with Sybylla but then I am not sure the reader is supposed to. I think the novel demonstrates the arrogance of youth very well. So often that arrogance is not caused because we know (or think we know) better than others but because we don't know what we want or how to describe it. Sybylla knew that Harold was not what she wanted but I don't think she new what she wanted. And I think she was telling us that, in retrospect, she was wrong. I thought the ending was very good and would have been disappointed by a different ending.
Posted to MarciNYC today.
Posted to MarciNYC today.
Wow! This must have come over on the Concorde! (Never mind that I know it no longer runs, but...) I'm in the middle of one book right now and will start this in the next couple days and get it moved along shortly.
I'm having quite a difficult time getting into this book right now and the fact that life if going ass over heels in the next week isn't going to make finding time to read any easier. I'm sending this off to the next person instead of letting it languish here in Jersey.
Definitely a teenager. Self-consciously self-aware and yet has no perspective regarding herself or her world. Even I had better self-esteem at that age! Is it that she does not want to marry or just convinces herself that she doesn't, because she does not feel worthy of being loved? Would that explain why she kept trying to hurt Harold before he could hurt her?
Sent to Spain via Air mail.
Sent to Spain via Air mail.
Journal Entry 15 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, August 7, 2005
Have sent a PM to Lillyanna today to see if this book has arrived in Spain with her.
Will update back here soon....
17th Aug - Have sent another PM. Hopefully all is OK with Lillyanna and this book will move along soon.
15th October Update - have sent 2 PM's to Lillyanna to see if she can move this book along shortly... hopefully she is OK and can post this on.
Will update back here soon....
17th Aug - Have sent another PM. Hopefully all is OK with Lillyanna and this book will move along soon.
15th October Update - have sent 2 PM's to Lillyanna to see if she can move this book along shortly... hopefully she is OK and can post this on.
Received some time ago, with delay because our chaotic local post office...later I was abroad and on holidays...At the end, so sorry to everybody!!!I will try to read it as fast as I can...Thanks for being so understanding.
Reading...in two weeks the book will travel to Kiki in Gemany! Thanks for waiting me!---------------
Sent to Germany via Air mail. Good luck!
Journal Entry 18 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Have sent Lillyanna a little reminder PM today... hopefully this book will finally resume its journey to other readers shortly. Apologies for the hold-up.
10th Nov: It looks as if this has been posted. Many thanks to Lillyanna for moving it along.
10th Nov: It looks as if this has been posted. Many thanks to Lillyanna for moving it along.
Well well.. the book finally has made its way over to Germany...
Looking forward to read it..
By now there are two nice bookmarks in it but not the one with the names on it (menitoned by wirigerie)... guess I will add another one :-))
Thanks for sending the book, lillyanna!
Looking forward to read it..
By now there are two nice bookmarks in it but not the one with the names on it (menitoned by wirigerie)... guess I will add another one :-))
Thanks for sending the book, lillyanna!
Just to inform you that I'm still reading this book... found it a little bit hard to get into it..But it can't be long now before I will send it on!
P.S.
have found the bookmark with the names on it.. it is still
there.. stupid me! ;-)
Edit:
Well, I have finally finished this book. Sorry it took me some time but I found it not an easy read. I was sometimes soo annoyed with Sybylla's behaviour. And her self pity... my dear..
So this book will be on its way to France on Monday since I already have chich's address!
Journal Entry 21 by 
kiki66
at BookRing in -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Bayern Germany on Monday, January 16, 2006
kiki66 at BookRing in -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Bayern Germany on Monday, January 16, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (1/16/2006 UTC) at BookRing in -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Bayern Germany
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The book is on its way to France!
Happy Travelling, book!
The book is on its way to France!
Happy Travelling, book!
Journal Entry 22 by chich from Ibiza - Sant Antoni de Portmany, Illes Balears/Islas Baleares Spain on Saturday, January 21, 2006
Book received today, thanks Kiki66, that was really fast! Thanks for the lovely photograph, too (it can be seen here, journal entry #19)
This was actually the first Ring I signed up for when I first joined BookCrossing, so I'm really excited that the book finally reached me! Thanks for sharing miss-gonewest!
The lovely bookmark you inserted in the book can be seen here (journal entry #20)
Journal Entry 23 by chich from Ibiza - Sant Antoni de Portmany, Illes Balears/Islas Baleares Spain on Friday, January 27, 2006
I was really excited to read this book because I'd never read a book written by an Australian author before:)
The book is very well-written and I found it interesting because it depicts life in the Australian outback. Still, I had a hard time with Sybylla's character and didn't find her likeable at all. I found her to be extremely self-centered and somewhat obsessive, and I don't think she really knew what she wanted after all.
Anyway, I'm glad I read this book, it's always interesting to discover a new author:) Thanks for sharing miss-gonewest!
Updated January 30: book sent to Deadsteen today.
Arrived today. Have to finish "The Truth About the Drug Companies" and then I'm ready. I love all the bookmarks and postcards that are traveling with this book.
April 15-- Ready to send this book on. I enjoyed it, especially the descriptions of the Outback. Most of Sybella thoughts and actions didn't make sense to me, so I couldn't relate to the story very well.
April 15-- Ready to send this book on. I enjoyed it, especially the descriptions of the Outback. Most of Sybella thoughts and actions didn't make sense to me, so I couldn't relate to the story very well.
Received today...will read as soon as possible. Finishing up this book, Pm'd for next address.
On its way home to miss-gonewest on May 30, 2006.
On its way home to miss-gonewest on May 30, 2006.
Journal Entry 26 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Monday, May 15, 2006
Aussieangel wishes to be skipped so I’ve just posted a request in the forums to see if any other readers want to participate, before the book comes home to me.
Hopefully this can make some new friends, if not, it will return to me and go onto Mt TBR.
Thanks so all for participating & for keeping this moving along. I hope you enjoyed it!
Hopefully this can make some new friends, if not, it will return to me and go onto Mt TBR.
Thanks so all for participating & for keeping this moving along. I hope you enjoyed it!
Journal Entry 27 by miss-gonewest from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Just advising that this book has arrived home safe and sound after what seems to be an exciting circuit around the globe.
My warmest thanks to all who participated to keep this travelling; and for sharing your thoughts. Happy bookcrossing!
My warmest thanks to all who participated to keep this travelling; and for sharing your thoughts. Happy bookcrossing!
