The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

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I have spoken with love about his book for about a year now. It‘s been Notabled in this year‘s Australian premier children and young adult awards, and I got a chance to write a review. It now posted at Reading Time. http://readingtime.com.au/the-end-of-the-world-is-bigger-than-love/ such an amazing book. #readingndreviewing #2021bookawards

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Reggie

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

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I think this book is about how stories we‘ve been told or read come back to us in the moments we find ourselves alone in life to comfort and save us. This is a book lover‘s book. Twins, Summer and Winter, in alternating chapters tell us about how they survive alone on an island in the post apocalypse when a bear or is it a boy shows up. One of the sisters is a babbler, the other is soft and quiet and you don‘t know if either are telling the 👇🏼

Reggie truth. And as much as that began to frustrate me it didn‘t take away from the emotional punches it threw throughout the book. Thanks @JennyM for this great rec. I really enjoyed it. 4y

LoverOfLearning Sounds very interesting! The cover is gorgeous! 4y

merelybookish Gear review Reggie. I'm sold. 🙂 4y

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wanderinglynn Sounds intriguing. Great review 👍🏻 4y

TrishB 👍🏻 great review 4y

Reggie @TrishB Thanks! Hey, have you seen a movie called Threads? It‘s this way older movie that takes place in England and it‘s about a nuclear holocaust. It was soooo scary. 4y

TrishB Oh Reggie that film was terrifying when I saw it in the 80s!! It‘s all we talked about in school for weeks 😱😱 4y

Reggie @TrishB Yeah, for being a movie in the 80‘s with little special effects it was great. That first half building up to the bomb and the second half starving to death or dying to radiation poisoning. And that poor pregnant girl. It was rough. I was very bummed out by the end of it all. 4y

JennyM Eek...I‘m SO happy you enjoyed it. And lovely review. Makes me want to read it again 😘 4y

erzascarletbookgasm I would have stacked this based on your great review, if I haven‘t stacked after @JennyM ‘s 😊 4y

Reggie @LoverOfLearning @merelybookish @wanderinglynn @erzascarletbookgasm Thanks! Yeah, there‘s some stuff in here that makes you want to talk to another person about it. Or just to confirm that what you think is what the author intended. It was good. 4y

ReadingEnvy Ooh I hadn't heard of this one. 4y

Reggie @ReadingEnvy the author works in children‘s publishing and you can tell because the twins are constantly reading and referencing books. It was endearing. It‘s YA just so you know, and from what I read about it, it‘s big in Australia which is where it‘s from. 4y

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JennyM

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

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It‘s impossible to review this book without giving anything away. But I can say it‘s unlike anything I‘ve read - it‘s magical, has a talking bear & whale, oodles of literary references, & I was totally confused for a good chunk of it until it all made complete sense and I was 😭 at the brilliance. It‘s YA and I‘d be curious to see the thoughts of someone in that age bracket. Lots of buzz in Australia about it last year and I can see why 🐻 ❤️🐳

Reggie Ummm, how can I not stack after that review?! 4y

JennyM @Reggie I need to talk about it with someone, Reggie!!! It was so refreshingly unusual and the underlying messages were 😭😭😭 4y

BarbaraBB You‘re doing at again 😀 I‘m super curious now and will check it out! 4y

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JennyM @BarbaraBB lol 😂 I could not imagine writing this review in the first half of the book where I was really confused. But by the end I just loved it. Can wait till my daughter is old enough to read it. 4y

CarolynM Stacked🙂 4y

youneverarrived I‘m intrigued! Stacking 🤍 4y

Kalalalatja You had me at talking bear! 🐻😄 4y

JennyM @CarolynM I will be so curious to hear what you think 🤞 4y

JennyM @youneverarrived @Kalalalatja I think you‘ll both enjoy it. It‘s definitely different! 4y

TrishB This sounds like something my daughter would like. She doesn‘t read whilst doing uni though so I might save as a birthday pressie for later in the year! 4y

Tanisha_A Here I go again, stack stack! 4y

JennyM @TrishB it deals with some big issues (mental health just one) but being YA it does it very delicately and through the use of magical realism like talking animals! If C does read it, I would love to know her thoughts. 4y

JennyM @Tanisha_A 😘😘😘 Hope you are well, T 😘😘😘 4y

BookishMarginalia Stacked! 4y

valeriegeary Talking bear? Talking whale? If that hadn't sold me the cover would! 😍😍😍 4y

erzascarletbookgasm Intriguing! 4y

JennyM @BookishMarginalia @valeriegeary @erzascarletbookgasm the cover is sparkly beautiful and the writing is just gorgeous. Hope you enjoy when you get to it 🤞 4y

Reggie Just wanted to say I‘m 100 pages into this and don‘t know who to trust. I thought their mom died in birth but now she‘s a radio host. And you‘re right. The writing is lovely. 4y

JennyM @Reggie ooo, I cannot wait to hear what you think when you get to the end! Keep me posted 😘 4y

Reggie @JennyM So Summer didn‘t exist? She was just a coping mechanism. That‘s why she saw the bear and the whale(because they had been reading Moby Dick)? Edward was also a figment of her imagination. This is like the Bunny of YA. 4y

JennyM @Reggie yes!!! That‘s what I think but wasn‘t completely sure. Did you get emotional at the end? I was in bits when the whale said to Summer come rest in me, and then when someone (can‘t remember who) said to Winter that sometimes the end of the world isn‘t bigger than love. I felt that it was such a message of hope for a YA struggling with mental health and/or suicidal ideation❤️ Bunny of YA - that made me chuckle 😆 (edited) 4y

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mjtwo

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

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18-24 July 2020
I read this book to determine whether it was suitable for Polly (reviews say 14+) and there is a fair amount of hype surrounding its publication in Australia. Using two unreliable narrators in a YA book is probably a useful device as it encourages young readers to question what is ‘true‘ and will no doubt see this book added to high school curriculums, but I found it a little contrived. The story was nevertheless quite absorbing.

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

Now that things are starting to open back up - I decided it was a great time to finish spending my Readings voucher... my two most anticipated books don‘t come out until the end of the month but the two I bought sound pretty good! #loveozya

ju.ca.no Looks and sounds good😍 4y

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Missusb

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love | Davina Bell

#currentlyreading #outnow Another one for the radio on Sunday.... I started it in April, and it blew my mind, and I really wanted to wait until I had a print copy, so I could flick back and forth, which is what you need to do with a book like this. #postapocalyptic #twins #unreliablenarrator #twistandturns I am not sure what‘s real or not. So I am diving back in. Stay safe, Americans. (& others)...

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