Ramona Koval
By the Book is Ramona Kovalâ€™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?,Ramonaâ€™s Kovalâ€™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 Ramonaâ€™s interviews over the years. ,By the Book is quintessentially Ramona: warm, bright, eruditeâ€”unmissable.
Nonfiction,Writing,Books About Books,Autobiography,Memoir,Cultural,Australia,Biography,Literary Fiction,Criticism,Literary Criticism
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life