It's all about the last line of the book.

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	• Love the One You're With Emily Giffin St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 219 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

another good one from Giffin

A great story with great characters. E. Giffins other books are better than this one. If you liked this, you'll love the others.

Good read, slightly frustrating

I found the essential premise of this book to be compelling and something that anyone could easily relate to, namely, feeling occasionally ambivalent about the long-lasting life choices we all make. Ellen marries her best friend's brother, good guy Andy, but a chance encounter with old flame Leo sends her reeling. I enjoyed reading the book but felt that I was almost too much inside Ellen's head; I longed for a little more action, or plot. The characters seemed a little one-dimensional to me; it was harder to understand Ellen's ultimate choice because the characters were so thinly drawn. Still, I got my money's worth out of the book.

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It's all about the last line of the book.

Many women I know (and men too) have that "ex". The one that made perfect sense in the heart and in the bedroom but just didn't pan out in the rest of the world. The one that we're sure we're over...until we hear from or see them. The ex that, years later, can rip open that scarred heart and makes us revert once again into that pile of quiver we were shortly after the breakup. The one that makes us second guess the present love and wonder is it as good as that older love? Ellen Dempsey had one of those ex's too.

Overall, I think this book is easy to relate to. Although I don't like all of the choices Ellen made or her wishy-washy attitude about what she should do....I do relate to her. I could empathize with her. When revisiting the "what if" man, I think it's normal to sound goofy and uncertain and maybe a bit irrational. It's that conflict between the head and the heart. And in some cases the old memories of the heart versus the newer love for another.

I'm glad that Ellen finally found her way and made the choice I agree with. Although Leo seemed very characteristic of that "old love", Andy seemed a bit too wimpy. A bit too forgiving. A bit too "perfect". Yet maybe that's why Ellen's decision was even harder.

I too disagree with the Pittsburgh portrayal. That's where my family is from there and feel that the picture painted about life there was a bit off. There was a section when Ellen had a discussion about, how even though she was going to move to Atlanta, she wouldn't start saying "y'all"...she would continue to say "you all". And I was thinking...what about "y'unz"? Why don't you say y'unz? I also think that the inferiority complex of Pittsburgh natives is way off. If anything, it is a city of fierce pride and I can't imagine one of my relatives ever feeling inferior because of their upbringing. But, I regress. It was nice to see the Pittsburgh references but I do feel they were way off. Not even stereotypical because it makes Pittsburgh sound like Bedrock. Just way off.

This book is about sisters, friendship, marriage, love and family. It's about the person you though was "the one" until you profoundly realize that "the one" has always been right in front of you. I think the storyline is something easy to relate to. The writing is merely okay. The plot, especially the last line of the book, provides enough food for thought that I'm giving it 4-stars.

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couldn't put it down

Ellen Graham is a confusing, frustrating, maddening character. But she is also a believable, painfully honest, where-your-heart-on-your-sleeve type of narrator that makes this story hard to put down. I loved following her journey with Leo and Andy, and I loved how she wasn't afraid to explore herself or possibly make the wrong choices. She lays it all out there to try and figure out what love really means to her. That's not to say that I agreed with everything she did, but she was a lot of fun to read about and watching her figure it out and grow up through the course of the story was a very rewarding experience.

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Rare Read

It's a rare thing that an author can bring both humor and sadness to a story, but this is one such book. Set in NYC and Georgia, you get a real snapshot of a marriage that's seemingly perfect, only to have a monkey wrench thrown into it. A great book.

Editor of Jennifer Winston's women's bestseller How to Snag a Guy and Keep Him Hooked: 99 Ways to Make Him Ache for You

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