bookish
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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026
But he kept coming back to a classic: a slender, bookish typeface famously used in Apple’s “Think Different” campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
Mother had left home after her marriage, as introverted and conservative, and possibly even more shy and bookish, than any of the others.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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