By the Book A Reader's Guide to Life Author:Ramona Koval What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer?By the Book is respected literary journalist Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing, 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... more » about learning to read (and asking her mother to buy her a copy of the Kama Sutra), about love and science, about poetry and travel and falling in love.By the Book is quintessentially Ramona: warm, bright, erudite?unmissable.« less