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From visiting the library of Lorain, Ohio, as a boy, to receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his reviews, Michael Dirda has lived a life enriched by books. Dirda regards books as “life-teachers,” and “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life” (Holt, 170 pages, $17)–full of passages copied into his journal, such as thoughts on starting a library–is never pretentious as it aspires to be as warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again.