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bmg20's review against another edition
4.0
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
There are some books that need to be read when you’re at the right place in your life to be able to fully appreciate it. If you’re super happy in your current relationship I could see this being a very negative book, from that perspective. If you’ve had your relationship ups and downs and even occasionally daydream of simply running away from life, I believe you’d be able to understand this book more.
This was a very powerful book, and at first glance not a very happy one. Elyse Bearden is a married mother of one who has realized lately that her marriage is stale. After meeting a man on a plane ride home that she later begins to have an affair with, she begins to really question what she wants out of her marriage and what she wants out of her life. She doesn’t fall in love and daydream about running away with this man, but he alone has transformed her thoughts and her overall expectations.
‘Thinking about him is addictive, I know that from yesterday when I became so drunk with memory that I took to my bed like some old-time Hollywood starlet.’
Finally coming to the conclusion that she can’t stay in this marriage and continue to live the way she has been. She unfortunately realizes that if she really wants to leave, she’s going to have to leave a lot more than just a marriage.
When I was a teenager my grandmother used to tell me, “You marry the man, you marry the life,” and it seems to me logical, perfectly ordinary karma, that the reverse is also true. If I leave this man then I must leave this life.
Simply put, this was a very heartbreaking novel. Elyse was a very vivid character and her story was quite authentic. The ending wasn’t your traditional tale of happily ever after; however, it is a tale of life continuing even when you didn’t think it could.
There are some books that need to be read when you’re at the right place in your life to be able to fully appreciate it. If you’re super happy in your current relationship I could see this being a very negative book, from that perspective. If you’ve had your relationship ups and downs and even occasionally daydream of simply running away from life, I believe you’d be able to understand this book more.
This was a very powerful book, and at first glance not a very happy one. Elyse Bearden is a married mother of one who has realized lately that her marriage is stale. After meeting a man on a plane ride home that she later begins to have an affair with, she begins to really question what she wants out of her marriage and what she wants out of her life. She doesn’t fall in love and daydream about running away with this man, but he alone has transformed her thoughts and her overall expectations.
‘Thinking about him is addictive, I know that from yesterday when I became so drunk with memory that I took to my bed like some old-time Hollywood starlet.’
Finally coming to the conclusion that she can’t stay in this marriage and continue to live the way she has been. She unfortunately realizes that if she really wants to leave, she’s going to have to leave a lot more than just a marriage.
When I was a teenager my grandmother used to tell me, “You marry the man, you marry the life,” and it seems to me logical, perfectly ordinary karma, that the reverse is also true. If I leave this man then I must leave this life.
Simply put, this was a very heartbreaking novel. Elyse was a very vivid character and her story was quite authentic. The ending wasn’t your traditional tale of happily ever after; however, it is a tale of life continuing even when you didn’t think it could.
blodeuedd's review against another edition
3.0
My thoughts:
I read this one slowly, it was just one of those books that had a way that you took your time with it. It also made me think about things.
Elyse is unhappy. She tries to talk to her husband, but he can't see what's wrong. Their marriage is in trouble and he is blind to it. Because what would the town say!? And so she has an affair. Now this is not something I usually like. but here it makes sense and it gives her power. It makes her happier and it makes her want to leave this crappy marriage. This also made me think as the author says that the best thing women do is staying. They stay, no matter what.
It's a tale about trying to save a marriage, forbidden lust, finding yourself again and about friendship. What she would do without her friends I do not know. They are rocks in her life and she complain to them about her bad marriage, and to some, about the affair. The reader also gets to see the marriages of the friends, and not everything is rosy there either. But every woman is different and can handle different things.
It was a good book and it felt so real. She tried her best, she did the wrong things, but at the same time the right things. And she really did try. It's a book with scenes from a life.
Conclusion:
I can't say why it made me think about so many things, but it just did, love, life and everything else. It was a book where I wanted the heroine to find herself and therefore save herself.
rosetyper9's review against another edition
5.0
I started reading this book yesterday, I got behind on reading and realized, oh no, I have a blog tour tomorrow. So I pick up the book and start reading, and reading, and reading. I find myself so utterly engrossed in Elyse's life that I have completely tuned out of my own. That is what this book did for me, it let me lose myself for a little bit.
I feel a strong connection with Elyse, she is strong, she knows what she wants but she just doesn't quite know how to get it. She loved her daughter and her BFF but she also loves herself enough to know that she needs something to change. Through out the whole book I just want Phil to look at her and see her, but unfortunately he can't hear me.
This book is exactly what I think a book should be. It is thought provoking and real, so real that is almost feels magical, it is exciting and sad, it makes you think. This book gives you an escape and it strips away your own thoughts and fears about marriage so that you can glimpse some of your own happiness or unhappiness. For good or bad, I think this book will incite change.
I feel a strong connection with Elyse, she is strong, she knows what she wants but she just doesn't quite know how to get it. She loved her daughter and her BFF but she also loves herself enough to know that she needs something to change. Through out the whole book I just want Phil to look at her and see her, but unfortunately he can't hear me.
This book is exactly what I think a book should be. It is thought provoking and real, so real that is almost feels magical, it is exciting and sad, it makes you think. This book gives you an escape and it strips away your own thoughts and fears about marriage so that you can glimpse some of your own happiness or unhappiness. For good or bad, I think this book will incite change.
roroth's review against another edition
3.0
Just finished Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright tonight. It was a fast read but I rated it 3 stars. The writing was really good but I didn’t love the characters. It’s about a woman who is coming up on 40 years old, her 10 year anniversary coming up and she meets a man on a flight and realizes her life as a stay a home mom and wife to a dentist is not what she wanted after all.
This was a 3 Star because although it was written well, the only feelings I felt through out the whole book was anger and annoyance. It takes place in a upper class suburban town and all the main characters are woman who are unhappy in their marriages but do not communicate with their husbands in a real way. It seemed that there was a lot of whining and moaning and it just annoyed me the whole time. I’m actually really surprised I finished it but it was like watching a train wreck I had to see how it ended.
This was a 3 Star because although it was written well, the only feelings I felt through out the whole book was anger and annoyance. It takes place in a upper class suburban town and all the main characters are woman who are unhappy in their marriages but do not communicate with their husbands in a real way. It seemed that there was a lot of whining and moaning and it just annoyed me the whole time. I’m actually really surprised I finished it but it was like watching a train wreck I had to see how it ended.
k8iedid's review against another edition
Like a slow-moving car accident, I knew what was going to happen, but I kept reading to find out how.
dja777's review against another edition
2.0
I know I read this, but I can't remember at all what I thought about it. Thus, two stars -- I obviously neither loved it nor hated it.
kelic's review against another edition
4.0
I had no idea what this was about before I read it. I needed a book with "air" in the title for a challenge. This happened to be available through my library electronically. I generally read UF, fantasy, and sci-fi; chick-lit isn't really my thing but, oh my goodness, I devoured this book. The story was great, the characters were really well fleshed out but it was the writing style that hooked me. Wright's prose is very poetic and slightly surreal. Or maybe impressionistic is a better description. Whatever it is it's wonderful to read.
jessreads82's review against another edition
3.0
Don't be fooled by the flippant title and the synopsis that this is a love story about a women who meets a man on a plane. I thought this would be a light hearted read, and it was anything but. The writing was phenomenal and original, which makes me hesitant to give this book three stars instead of four, but the dour nature of the book, and the almost lack of hope it gives, makes it a three to me.
This is a story about unhappy marriages, life in the upper middle class suburbs, infidelity and friendship. I really did love the writing style, and the characters were real and unique. But I didn't actually like any of them. Especially the Elyse, the main character. They are women that I would never want to be friends with in real life; spoiled, whiney and privileged. I did like the honesty about the difficulties of marriage and family life, but I got the feeling the author had no hope for marriage or long term relationships, and the bitterness of it all was not what I was expecting.
Overall, I did enjoy the book, but it made me grateful for my down to earth, lower middle class, unspoiled friends I have in my life
This is a story about unhappy marriages, life in the upper middle class suburbs, infidelity and friendship. I really did love the writing style, and the characters were real and unique. But I didn't actually like any of them. Especially the Elyse, the main character. They are women that I would never want to be friends with in real life; spoiled, whiney and privileged. I did like the honesty about the difficulties of marriage and family life, but I got the feeling the author had no hope for marriage or long term relationships, and the bitterness of it all was not what I was expecting.
Overall, I did enjoy the book, but it made me grateful for my down to earth, lower middle class, unspoiled friends I have in my life
fuzzywuzzy's review against another edition
1.0
Way too much talk about "back in the day", the whole plane scene was completely unbelievable and not once firing this book was there any dialogue from her daughter. Just a complete waste of time. And what love? There was no love!
oursuburbanfarm's review against another edition
3.0
This book was interesting and kept me reading, however, it was also very depressing. The characters were deep and following their journey seemed realistic. It was, however, a dreary view on the lives of unhappily married people. I could not relate with these characters; which made it simply depressing at times.