bodice ripper

Publishers say this is a growth rate greater than for bodice rippers and whodunits.

From the civil rights struggle to bodice rippers.

Somehow it just fit-I would manage to get involved with a gorgeous man who wrote bodice rippers.

She followed that up with six more of what she describes as "sweet" romances, not bodice rippers.

That book, a 'bodice ripper', will soon be followed by a thriller, inevitably titled Campaign.

It's more romantic than a bodice ripper."

"I take exception to the characterization of that novel as a bodice ripper, Chief," Bowers said with a wink.

"It's a bodice ripper," she said.

Breakfasting America had sized up my TV style years ago and voted overwhelmingly for bodice rippers.

"The Klingon bodice ripper?

"Bodice rippers.

After charming millions on the Jack Paar show, Alexander King came up out of the basement and took off like a 900-page bodice ripper.

Imagine it, Lieutenant," he said, addressing Dax, "a Klingon bodice ripper.

He had wanted to go for more of the 'bodice ripper' type novels that David produced, but Sarah had held out for her own choices.

But in this bodice ripper, the bodice doesn't belong to the call girl who caused Mr. Morris's expulsion from paradise.

Escapist literature such as bodice rippers, utopian prophecies, and space opera were mass produced as a means of keeping the population pacified.

She dismisses the novel as a bodice ripper, "mass dressed up as class, like Ralph Lauren," with its jacket of subtle artwork and faded colors.

Crowell later admitted her fabrication was based on a scene from a 1974 best-selling bodice ripper romance novel, Sweet Savage Love.

Of course, Mr. Grisham is still doing quite nicely, and bodice rippers, sci-fi and other in-flight mainstays are hardly dead.

Then came ecstasy of the sort usually described in a bodice ripper, though the heroine's bodice, in this case, would probably have been torn from excess weight.

Not simply lips brushing, or doing all the things graphically described in romantic novels or those historical things known in the trade as 'bodice rippers'.

Two aged aunts building and occupying comparable real estate developments in a remote part of town - that plot alone could spawn a series of bodice rippers.

Scenes in which characters have to explain their sexual urges spell trouble for writers; they end up sounding vaguely seamy, like steamy episodes out of bodice rippers.

The Bodice Rippers retell the story of Persephone on their EP II.

Randy Cassingham's This is True: "Super Bowl Bodice Ripper"