bookworm

Mary is a bookworm who draws her apt conclusions about human behavior from written wisdom.

From Salon ● May 20, 2026

After Harelly moved to the Bay Area to study creative writing at San Francisco State University, the bookworm felt a massive disconnect from the Eurocentric, English work she was assigned to read in her classes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

When assistant head teacher Rebecca Howell, a bookworm herself, walks into a classroom, a child will always bring her a book and ask her to read it.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

An under-the-radar prospect from Miami, Mendoza was such a bookworm in high school that some coaches stopped pursuing him because they questioned whether he really wanted to play football.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

“I thought you were the loveliest bookworm I’d ever seen in my life.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

So I always imagined my own children would similarly be bookworms and geeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

Flour-based glues come from the insides of wheat grains and include gluten — which bookworms love as much as the rest of us.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

"Bookworm" is a cute thing to call a voracious reader, but actual bookworms -- as well as microorganisms and time -- break down the flour pastes commonly used to keep old publications in one piece.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation’s researchers, scholars, students, and bookworms were left high and dry.

From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024

“Bring me your best and brightest bookworms, research hounds, and gamers. Our first Library Olympiad shall commence on March twentieth. The ancient Greeks had their summer games, so we’ll take the first day of spring.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein