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Location: Canada

Member Since: May 12, 2012

Elizabeth McManus

Love and the Art of War on June 19, 2012

This is a gem of a novel! Jane, a librarian with her marriage on the rocks, decides to take a class to help fix her situation. Instead, she by mistake ends up sitting in a class about Sun Zu's The Art of War. At the break, she approaches her teacher to admit the mistake and switch classes but he end up convincing her that he can help her marriage with Sun Zu's 36 stratagems. Dinah Lee Kung takes the reader along with Jane on her journey to repair her marriage and learn how best to fight your enemy without direct attack. Jane learns a lot about the other people in her life and her class, but mostly about herself. I loved this book because the character of Jane is so richly developed that I feel like I know her. She is well spoken, well read, and quirky in all the ways a librarian should be. I also enjoyed how Kung did not shy away from incorporating the political current affairs of this age.