Very sweet and satisfying romantic comedy. Solid B+ lesbian fiction. Would recommend to anyone for whom this year's Hulu movie "The Happiest Season" left them wanting.

While I enjoyed Landing, I have to give it a rather low rating for a Emma Donoghue book. In comparison with Kissing the Witch, which is one of the very best collections I've read of contemporary reworkings of fairy tales, or Slammerkin, which is a powerful, devastating, grim and completely absorbing historical novel, Landing seems like a dashed-off, unpolished bit of fluff. I suppose that after writing a book like Slammerkin that so thoroughly plumbs the depths of despair, writing a lightweight

3.5 stars. Enjoyable novel telling the story of a trans-continental romance between big-city Irish flight attendant Sile and small-town Canadian museum curator Jude. I had a great time reading this book and couldn't put it down. Emma Donoghue really has an ear for conversation and includes a lot of very funny and realistic banter among friends (something I remember from the first book of hers that I read, Stir-Fry). At the same time, there was something that didn't quite ring true for me in the

Always nice to see a lesbian romance written by an author who has reached the mainstream (Room was Donoghue's breakout book) so it's marketed just like any other book, rather than completely to GLBT audiences. My quibble with this book is that I found the characters really annoying, and so it was hard to root for their romance aside from the overall, general, love will prevail kind of expectation you have for this type of book. One was so unadventurous that she would have bored me silly, while t...

A book about two ladies who meet overseas after a surprising incident on a plane, and how their feelings intertwine through the many miles between them. It was a decent read that I blew through in a day or two, mostly because I found myself skimming many a page. The two MCs were interesting and different than other couples I have read about, one young Quaker archivist in a small town in Ontario (yay!) who is set in her luddite ways and not willing/wanting to move, and one 14 years older, a jet s...

I started reading London, ON-based Irish author Emma Donoghue’s 2007 novel Landing at about eleven o’clock at night thinking I would read a chapter or two and then drop off to sleep. At two o’clock in the morning, eyes barely still open but mind racing, I had to force myself to put the book down. It’s not that there’s anything explicitly extraordinary about Landing; in fact, it’s a realist novel that’s quite ordinary and down-to-earth. It’s a book about the kinds of people you know, in situation...

Do yourself a favour. If you see this novel don't pick it up. Don't even bother with the blurb. Trust me. I don't know anyone who would enjoy this. It reminds me of a clip on the www of a raccoon who has found a piece of candy floss and like the good little raccoon that it is, it goes to wash it in a stream, the way it does with all its food. However as soon as the candy floss touches the water it disintegrates and the mystified raccoon is left scrabbling around in the water wondering what happe...

As far as the characters go, Rizla was insufferable and the fact that Jude had feelings for him made her less likable to me as well. Síle on the other hand, is a pure delight. She definitely stands out among a cast of somewhat irritating characters and her feelings for Jude make the latter a more endearing character as well, despite the obnoxious people she surrounds herself with.Characters aside, the writing and the plot are skillful and well-developed. I loved the theme and setting, as well as...

The narrative in this book is such a chaotic mess that I was totally frustrated at the beginning, and I was sure then that I wasn't going to give it any more than two stars. But then the two main characters totally grew on me, and I got invested. By about halfway through, I couldn't put it down. It's not a perfect book by any means (and by Emma Donoghue's standards it's quite subpar), but my god, did Jude and Síle get under my skin. Also, bonus points for having a happy ending that's not totally...

Enjoyed this but felt distant from the characters...definitely not as good as Room

I wrote this a while ago: So... I pick up this book on CD at the library. First of all, it is by the author of "Room" which I enjoyed. Secondly, the jacket blurb is intriguing: "Sile (pronounced Sheila, BTW) is a sophisticated 39 year old Indian-Irish flight attendant living in Dublin, Ireland; Jude is a 25 year old British-Canadian historian from rural Ireland, Ontario who has never flown before. When their paths cross over the Atlantic, their lives are changed in ways they never expected." OK,...

This book hit really close to home for me. It wasn't so much the situation - although that was very similar for myself and my wife - but rather the emotions attached to it. The burgeoning feelings through email and telephone calls; the first confession of love; that sudden realisation that you can't spend the rest of your life spending any more time away from the person you love...I always felt that it was really hard to describe how all of that feels to someone who hasn't experienced it. In the...

I should have known that Emma Donoghue couldn't pretty up a write-by-numbers romance. As someone who has been staying in a country where she didn't have a single friend or relative other than her husband for five years, who hasn't been back to visit her country in two years, it was all I could do to stop myself from throwing my kindle across the room. It's 17 fucking hours in a non-stop flight from NYC to Bangalore, and I have to go a good 10 hours by road after that to reach my family. I'm sorr...

I stopped reading when it became clear there was going to be a happy (sappy) ending. The two main characters were each boring, annoying, and drama-prone in their own special way, and I couldn't stand either one of them. They had absolutely nothing in common except their reciprocal disdain for the other's lifestyle. They whined their way through 9 months (and 15 nights) of excruciating long-distance relationship, until I was honestly hoping Ms. Donoghue would do them both (and me) a kindness and

Landing is a long distance love affair between two women, one a flight attendant from Ireland and the second, a young women living in a fictional town in southwestern Ontario. Landing is a well written book but for me the sections about kissing, hand holding and making love were uncomfortable but needed in the story. For me the best part of this story was the way they met (on an international flight) and the references to various locations in Ontario. ( Coldstream, London, the Pinery, Stratford

I was looking for a light, fluffy beach read and that’s what this was, and the writing kept me interested - but I wouldn’t give it any more credit than that.

A quiet, meandering love story...sometimes refreshingly divergent from the genre-romance formula and allowing us to spend time with delightful supporting characters, other times too slow and rambly. It really doesn't feel like the other Donoghue novels I've read - certainly a little odd seeing her name on a straightforward love story with few dramatic or historic twists! (Not to mention, the writing style and plot just plain pale in comparison to Room and Slammerkin and Frog Music.) What's reall...