By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life
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By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing.
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer?
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Ramona's Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. It is about learning to read (and asking her mother to buy her a copy of the Kama Sutra), about love and science (and her childhood ambition to be Marie Curie), about arctic exploration (and her ruminations on what part of a husky she would eat if she had to), about poetry and travel and falling in love.
In our book-devouring nation, this is a book for every avid reader and every avid listener who has been spellbound by Ramona's interviews over the years.
By the Book is quintessentially Ramona: warm, bright, erudite—unmissable.
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