bookworm

We paint our current selves onto the kids we grew up with, so the bookworm remembers a childhood crowded with library lovers, and today’s teenagers are contrasted with classmates who never existed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

He became a self-proclaimed "bookworm", reading Albert Camus, Toni Morrison, and Romain Gary, as well as fellow Haitian writers such as Jacques Roumain and James Noel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Or, because I’m such a freaking bookworm, I go home and sit on my big, comfy couch and just read some more until I fall asleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

I don’t remember when the blocks of words began to make sense, but by the end of that school year I’d gone from book hater to bookworm.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Opening your own book shop might be a lofty daydream for some bookworms looking to escape their 9-5, but more and more people are making it a reality.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But unless your club is extraordinarily broad-minded, you might cause considerable consternation by exposing fellow bookworms to Mr. Warren-Smith’s gleeful, demented diversions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are writing a new chapter in their romance, tying the knot two years after a meeting that would make most bookworms swoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke