The book consists of 100 reviews published in 1999-2002 in the permanent column “Kirill Kobrin’s Bookshelf” of the New World magazine. The author considers these texts to be a lyrical diary, a kind of new “bedside notes”, the heroes of which are not people, but books. Perhaps it is even a “novel,” but a novel organized along formal lines (“the closet” is equal to ten “shelves” of ten books each); a novel that can be read from anywhere.