Love the One You're With | 
 enlarge | Author: Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Rating:  156 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
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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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SLOW STARTER...BUT A GOOD READ!!! July 7, 2008
Dana Y. Bowles (West Chester, PA USA)
Ellen Graham is leading what many would call a charmed life; she's got a great job doing what she loves in the Big Apple, she's married to a wonderful, successful man with money...who also just happens to be her best friend's brother. And they come from a close-knit, happy and seemingly perfect Southern family. Yes, Ellen's life does seem charmed...until that fateful rainy day in the intersection. We all have one...one who "got away," if you will. That one love in our life where things just didn't seem to work out, that love that leaves a space in our heart that, no matter how full, is only ever occupied by them...and for Ellen, that space was named Leo. So when she runs into Leo in that intersection on that fateful day in Manhattan...her life is forever altered. They catch up over coffee....Leo gives her the professional lead of a lifetime....and soon Ellen is questioning her life, her husband, her marriage. When Leo professes his love, Ellen must make a choice...and decide what space in her heart and life is more important.
With an ending that is the stuff that movies are made of, this slow-starting, rather predictable tale picks up speed leaving the reader engrossed. I found the conclusion its biggest saving grace..and thanks to that, Giffin has once again managed to pen a winner.
DYB
 A desperate housewife in need of closure... July 6, 2008
ChicBookFiend (MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ellen has married the perfect man. Andy is from a rich, old money family in Georgia, a lawyer who hates confrontations and is considerate in every possible way. His family is just as perfect; they have accepted Ellen into their circle with open arms. Her sister-in-law is her best friend, and that is how she hooked up with Andy. Ellen is a successful photographer in New York. Her life couldn't be better. So is she still thinking about her ex-boyfriend? When she runs into Leo by chance, all of the old memories come flooding back. Why did he break up with her when their relationship had been so wonderful and intense? Was he the one? Did she settle for Andy? Overwhelmed with confusion, Ellen falls into a somewhat reluctant game of flirtation with Leo as she tries to keep guilt at bay by pointing out the problems in her marriage to Andy, especially after they move to Georgia.
Love the One You're With is one of the most wonderfully written chick-lits out there. Emily Giffin doesn't write shallow and silly novels about single women wanting to get married. Her novels have substance, and this effort is very profound, more so than Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and those were very well written as well. This novel spoke to me. I went through something similar to Ellen. Most women have an "unrequited" or "star-crossed" love from the past, and it's wonderful to read something from a heroine who is fleshed out and three-dimensional. Ellen's inner musings and feelings are very real -- things that I have thought about myself -- and it's almost as if you're reading about yourself. Again, I absolutely LOVED Love the One You're With. The rather cutesy cover doesn't do this wonderful work justice, which is why I removed the jacket while I read it. I know I called this a "chick-lit," and I guess it is, but it shouldn't be marketed that way. This is a great piece of women's fiction.
Excellant July 5, 2008
D. Morman (Virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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Heartwarming and Entertaining July 5, 2008
K. Grant (Miami, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I literally could not put this book down after starting it. I started at 9PM and it is now 3AM. I laughed and I cried the whole time and I was cheering for Ellen more than once. Even though I was frustrated with Ellen's indecision throughout the story, the author presented real issues that anyone would be facing in Ellen's situation. I also understood the need for closure from an ex boyfriend, but I disagreed with Ellen's healing tactics. She had no problem standing up to neighborly snobs in Georgia, but she couldn't tell the ex to take a hike. Overall, the book is very down to earth with believable characters and a great story. Even the conversations make the reader feel whatever emotions are being carried out. Not many books can grab a reader in such a way, but Giffin expertly accomplishes this. I was reminded of the story The Notebook more than once while reading this and the end does not disappoint.
 At the very least, I learned something. July 4, 2008
Schmadrian
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
'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.
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