bookish

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When Alice Lockey, a well-read lady’s maid to an aristocrat, meets the bookish Charlie, a valet, the match seems meant to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Here was a bookish young woman who was told that she would not be enjoying the fruitful life that her sisters had, that her fate had already been decided.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned him the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Of course, I first devoured the novels at an age when I was too young to understand the Heathcliff-Catherine ourobouros dynamic; lonely, bookish orphan Jane was more my speed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

When he smiled, however, you saw the softness in his eyes, which made it clear that Lefty was in fact no gangster but the pampered, bookish son of comfortably well-off parents.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides