Why do many people underline lines in books and scribble in the margins, while others look with horror at the slightest carelessness? And what secrets are kept on the shelves of each of us’s home libraries? Isn't everyone annoyed by having to stack books on a shelf in two rows? The Reader on the Couch is an ironic and funny anthology of reading habits and the deep mechanisms that make our relationship with books almost erotic and, at times, neurotic. This book is dedicated to readers - psychotic and neurotic readers:• those who feel sad if they have to borrow a book, and those who promise themselves not to yawn while reading;• polyamorous readers who absorb several books at the same time, or, conversely, monogamous readers who do not touch new book until they finish the one they started, even through pain and tears;• those who are ashamed to say that they have not read this or that classic, and those who present this aspect of their reading biography as an integral part of the rebellious spirit.