The colleague beamed. "Sure!"
For the first time, a conversation opened instead of closed. bookworm bitches cytherea
Lena replied: "Who are you and what have you done with Cytherea?" The colleague beamed
The next day, she tried an experiment. At work, a colleague misquoted a Shakespeare line. Cytherea’s mouth opened, but she closed it. Instead, she said, "That's an interesting take. It reminds me of a different version I read—want to hear it?" At work, a colleague misquoted a Shakespeare line
Priya continued. "You correct people, Cy, because you love books. But to them, it feels like a power play. You're not sharing your light; you're burning them with it."
Cytherea had two problems: a TBR pile that could anchor a battleship, and a nasty habit of saying "well, actually" at parties. Her friends, only half-joking, called her and her two closest reading buddies "the Bookworm Bitches."