<DIV><p>What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer?</p><p><I>By the Book</I> 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 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.</p><p><I>By the Book</I> is quintessentially Ramona: warm, bright, erudite?unmissable.</p><p>Born to Yiddish-speaking survivors of the Holocaust and brought up in Melbourne, Australia, <B>Ramona Koval</B> found that books were her lifeline from a young age. She is now of the country's best-loved broadcasters, spending sixteen years presenting <I>The Book Show</I> on Radio National and interviewing writers on stage at festivals in Australia, Europe, and North America.</p></DIV>