Kate Bush showed bookish girls how to find the artist within.

But while Asha, a bookish girl with wide brown eyes, smiled and blushed and tried for months to catch his attention, he never looked at her twice.

Jena Malone plays this bright bookish girl with an appealing reserve.

This is because the pleasure of the predictable romance novel (or chick lit) is the knowledge that a bookish girl can win.

And who else would be reading a novel but a bookish girl?

Ms. Viswanathan is a bookish girl who might have had more success at fiction if she didn't bear the burden of the overachiever.

Or one of the bookish girls, who spent her lunches in the library?

"A bookish girl from a bookish family" is the way she once described herself.

She received a basic education and was considered a bookish girl.

A mysterious, bookish and religious girl.