The Thing About Jellyfish Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Ali Benjamin ID: B014G2DVA8
A stunning debut about how grief can open the world in magical ways. After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory – even if it means traveling the globe alone. Suzy’s achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe…and the potential for love and hope right next door.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 5 hours and 24 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Hachette AudioAudible.com Release Date: September 22, 2015Language: EnglishID: B014G2DVA8 Best Sellers Rank: #13 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Children’s Books > Animals #299 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Children’s Books > Fiction
An emotionally intense story is told here. This is a juvenile, but it certainly isn’t a typical one. It’s a multilevel novel aimed a bit more at girls but should affect guys too. The basic theme has to do with dealing with the death of a best friend and schoolmate. However, there’s a lot more. Suzy is convinced that her friend was stung by a jellyfish and sets out to prove her theory. She’s obviously a very bright student and is being well taught how to carry out a scientific project.
Suzy is a very complex character and one the reader can love. The novel is strongly educational while entertaining. Suzy tells her story in the first person.
There’s a lot here also for parents who choose to also read the book. This is a sensitive masterpiece that I can recommend to child and parent alike.
The Thing About Jellyfish is a touching tale about a young girl whose best (and only) friend drowns while on holiday. As the story progresses we discover that Suzy’s grief is much more than just the loss of her friend, but frustration at something happening without apparent reason, and regret about the things that took place between them before her friend died. Such a lot for a young soul to carry. I finished this last night, but I’m still feeling emotional about it. I’m so pleased I discovered this book.
I feel like I’ve just had a life changing lesson in jellyfish, amongst other important things, from a very smart 12 year old. I liked her outlook on life, the world and the people around her. I admired her strength and confidence, despite not being popular at school. There was something special within her that I wish I’d had when I was being bullied at school. Perhaps I did have it, but didn’t realise it at the time. I had very frizzy hair too, and I wanted to tell her, it’s okay Frizz Ease and hair straighteners will become your best friends once you’re a little older. You can control the frizz.
I suspected this book was going to make me cry before I even started it, I just didn’t realise I’d need a whole box of tissues. What a beautiful, delightful, yet emotional tale.
Although I enjoy religious and spiritual books, I loved how this had the same emotional impact on me without the religious aspect. I was surprised how learning scientific facts about jellyfish, with a bit of philosophical thought thrown in, could be so emotional and thought provoking.
This is like Stephen King’s Carrie for kids!
The Thing About Jellyfish is a great story for older children, young teenagers, and it seems this 37 year old girl very much enjoyed it too.
I would like to thank the publisher, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for allowing me a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Suzy is dealing with the death by drowning of her former best friend by indulging in self-imposed silence and a stubborn refusal to talk to anyone. This exploration of grief and denial is beautifully written with graceful notes and arresting observations on every page. It is also over 300 pages of precocious, self-absorbed navel gazing by a girl who is apparently unconcerned about and untouched by the emotional carnage she is leaving in her wake as a consequence of her behavior. Mom, Dad, sibling, friends, teachers, and so on are just collateral victims of Suzy’s journey.
At the outset I alternated among: appreciating the tone and style of the writing and the beautiful phrIDg and pace, checking to see how many more pages I had left, and wanting to slap Suzy in the head with a cold wet fish.
Reviews and blurbs emphasize the elegiac passages, the jellyfish angle/conceit, and Suzy’s marvelous search for personal and universal meaning as she navigates her own inner space. O.K. as far as that goes. Suzy is also cruel, irresponsible and a major narcissistic drama queen. This all makes the book interesting, maddening, annoying and compelling.
I guess my point is that this isn’t an emotionally satisfying trip down memory lane with Scout in "To Kill A Mockingbird". This is a roller coaster ride through the mixed up and complicated head of a conflicted and sometimes childish and dense twelve year old girl. It isn’t all gauzy and upbeat and for all of its mild and mellow passages it is challenging and in many ways confrontational. So, if there was ever a read-it-yourself-and-see-what-you-think, this is it.
Please note that I picked up a free copy of the ARC of this book at the 2015 ALA Convention. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
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