bookworm

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

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

As a child, she was a "bookworm" who loved attending acting classes and workshops.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

They hoped it would be a way to spread the organic bookworm spirit they’d instilled in their five children while dialing up representation for readers who had trouble finding characters who looked like them.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

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

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

True crime podcast lovers, bookworms and mystery series fans will all find something of interest in “Listen for the Lie,” the latest hit book to get the TV treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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

“Yeah. Haley and Charles conked out, too. Guess it’s just us bookworms, huh?”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein