Modifies a noun

• type: Buckner pins some bookish types to said page with unnerving precision.

• boy: Simon Randall is a fifteen year old bookish young boy who recently lost his mother.

• nature: Girls were certainly drawn to him, especially those of a bookish nature with a love of the arts.

• journalist: Robert Birnbaum, a bookish journalist, was born in Germany, grew up in Chicago, lived for too many years in Boston.

• sort: Followed by clever sausage, the bespectacled bookish sort who loves his mother.

• interest: Presumably her boys had shown some bookish interests because they were all apprenticed to be booksellers in London.

Modifying Another Word

• very: With the important exception of the Prince of Wales, the current royal family is not very bookish.