Love the One You're With | 
 enlarge | Author: Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 41
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 0312348673
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312348670
ASIN: 0312348673
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Product Description
How do you know if you’ve found the one? Can you really love the one you’re with when you can’t forget the one who got away?
Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof, poses these questions—and many more—with her highly anticipated, thought-provoking new novel Love the One You’re With.
Ellen and Andy’s first year of marriage doesn’t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other. But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo, the one who brought out the worst in her. Leo, the one who left her heartbroken with no explanation. Leo, the one she could never quite forget. When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life she’s living is the one she’s meant to live. At once heartbreaking and funny, Love the One You’re With is a tale of lost loves and found fortunes—and will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered what if.
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 At the very least, I learned something. July 4, 2008
Schmadrian
'Show, don't tell.'
This is a primary Writer's Credo. And this novel is a monument to disregarding it. In fact, it celebrates 'telling', as opposed to the more inclusive (and collaborative) 'showing'. As a burgeoning writer, I found it a fascinating experience, reading this book...in the same way that as a screenwriter, I learn more from bad films than from good ones.
Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed this book. It had its moments. (I'm currently reading a slew of 'chick-lit' novels as research; I have one on the go in this genre) Putting aside the facile nature of the exposition (it gets a little tedious declaring character by way of possessions, no matter how much supporting, corroborative narrative is provided), and the pedestrian plotline, 'Love the One You're With' is capably written...if perhaps owning too low a set of aspirations. There's little that will 'surprise' here, little that will transform, or otherwise make reading the novel some kind of special experience. It is, in a very real sense, a Hallmark/Women's Channel film-as-book. (If nothing else, Ms Griffin writes confidently.)
But I'd have been curious to read how much different this story might have been in the third-person omniscient...without so much 'telling' going on.
We'll never know.
P. S. What did I learn? That a novel can be flawed, yet engaging. That there is a place for all artists...it's just a question of getting the product to market, and finding your audience.
 Lots of fun! July 4, 2008
Layla Amani (Michigan)
First Emily Giffin book I have ever read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I read it in three sittings and really loved Ellen's story, especially how she came to her final decision. I love how Leo is all intangible attraction and his mysterious pull on Ellen's heart. Don't we all have those people in our lives who we're inexplicably drawn to? So which is love then? The ones we choose for ourselves or the ones we can't help but want to be with? This book answers that question beautifully.
LOVED this book July 4, 2008
kDK (nyc)
As a busy mom, i have little time to read... but i finished this book very quickly bc i could not put it down. I want to be friends with emily giffin (the author) bc she thinks the way i do.... this book was soooo good!
 Flat July 4, 2008
ReadingInBC
I loved Emily Giffin's first two books, thought her second was okay but was disappointed with this one. I was excited awaiting this one to be released and purchased it in hardcover. I am glad I picked it up at Chapter's and got it on sale as it is not worth the suggested cover price.
Perhaps I am tired of the same characters that grace all Emily Giffin's books but I realize she writes what she knows and that is commendable.
In my opinion it would be wise to wait for this one to come out in paperback or read at the library.
Will She or Won't She? July 3, 2008
Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest)
Eileen has been married to Andy for one hundred days when she bumps into Leo in Union Square, the love of any earlier life, the one who she let go. She tells Leo she's married now and he says he just wants to be friends. She agrees, but decides not to tell Andy.
Eileen's mother died when she was thirteen, survived by Eileen, her old sister suzanne and her father. Eileen leaves home after high school, goes to college where she rooms with Margot, a beauty queen daughter of a wealthy attorney. Andy is Margot's older brother.
After college Eileen and Margot get an apartment in New York. Eileen gets a job as a waitress, but photography has always been her first love and she eventually gets a job in a photo lab. Then she gets a summons for jury duty. Leo is on the jury too.
They become an item, Eileen is love, but after a year or so Eileen feels Leo drifting away and she begins to wonder if he loves her like she loves him. She suggests they break up, expecting Leo to resist, however he does not. Alone now, Eileen seeks refuge in photography and after a bit starts dating and as time goes on, she falls in love with Margot's older brother, who is sweet and kind and has kind of always been around.
Okay, so what is Eileen going to do now? Clearly it's wrong for her to go out with Leo in any capacity. He's her past. However, she kind of can't help herself. One thing leads to another and Eileen finds herself in L.A. with sister Suzanne on a photo shoot when she runs into, you guessed it, Leo. She is so far from home. What will she do?
Choices, life is all about choices. We make `em and we should live with 'em, but sometimes it's not so easy. Sometimes you wonder what if you'd have done things differently. Sometimes your heart pulls you in different directions, sometimes you make the right choice sometimes you do something foolish. That's what I like about Emily Giffin's stories, they seem to be about real people who sometimes seriously goof up, like we all do. I was captured by this one, wondering all the way through, will she or won't she? You gotta read the book to find out. You won't be disappointed.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene, Number One fan of Ken Douglas, writer of Tangerine Dream, Desperation Moon & Running Scared. One of the advantages of being married to a writer is that there are plenty of good books around the house. It's turned me into quite a reader. In addition to Ken's books you might also want to check out Something Borrowed & Something Blue, two other fine stories by Emily Giffin.
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