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bookwurm

  • n  a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
  • n  someone who spends a great deal of time reading

  • The narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet.
  • When this man gets going, he's more like a Harlem preacher than a Boston bookworm.
  • Klausner is a bookworm, but she's no snob.
News & Articles

  • Edwards author event set for Thursday
    Special to the Daily Banana waffles could be among the menu items Thursday at the Bookworm in Edwards when Chef Biju Thomas and Dr. Allen Lim are there for an event to sign their new book, "Feed Zone Portables."
    June 12, 2013 - Vail Daily
  • Author visits bookworm
    Special to the Daily John Norman Maclean has been writing about wildland fire fo more than 15 years. He visits the Bookworm of Edwards tonight at 6 p.m. in support of his latest book, "The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57," which was released in February.
    June 10, 2013 - Vail Daily
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    Special to the Daily John Norman Maclean has been writing about wildland fire fo more than 15 years. He visits the Bookworm of Edwards tonight at 6 p.m. in support of his latest book, "The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57," which was released in February.
    June 10, 2013 - Vail Daily
Quotes

  • Jenna-Louise Coleman in Metro
    Jenna told the TV Times: "I was really shocked by the storyline, especially since the Jasmine I've played in the past few years has been a shy, moral, bookworm-type. But that's what I like about it."
  • Jackie Lee in Wisconsin State Journal
    Hard to say,says Lee. "I was viewed as weird in elementary and middle school due to being a bookworm, but it wasn't really until high school that I started liking anime and comic books. I guess, once you have to explain to people what it...
  • Nick Verreos in LA Downtown News Online
    It's a modern way of having an exhibition, of integrating all the different markets,said Verreos during a recent tour of the South Park show. "You can reach the 14-year-old girl who's into Avril Lavigne, the adult theater fan or bookworm...

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