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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

November 8, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo celestial Miles Franklin is a turn of the century Australian author who is most famous for My Brilliant Career (I have neither read nor seen the movie, but I think that shall change in the near future).  It was published in 1901, when she was 16 years old.  Her follow-up, to give you a taste of her style, was titled My Career Goes Bung.  I have never read a voice quite like hers, and am enjoying it immensely. This is an exciting time […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: And they have opinions too!, cbr16 bingo celestial, miles franklin, Quirky and so much fun, Romance and more, Turn of the century Australia, Women voting for the first time in 1904, Wonderful sense of place

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:35 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: And they have opinions too!, cbr16 bingo celestial, miles franklin, Quirky and so much fun, Romance and more, Turn of the century Australia, Women voting for the first time in 1904, Wonderful sense of place ·
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I have always loathed murder.

Bring the Monkey by Miles Franklin

February 20, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book is kind of impressively bad. It’s impressive in the sense that it’s just obviously not a good novel and is difficult to read as a consequence of audacious of author choices that are done for a purpose, and are clearly part of that purpose but otherwise are not fun, good, or interesting to read. Let me explain. This is a satirical detective novel lampooning 1920s and 1930s estate manor mysteries like Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. It’s from 1933 and so it’s early […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: bring the monkey, miles franklin

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:102 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: bring the monkey, miles franklin ·
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