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Eggletina
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 Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:46 pm Post subject: Ballin’ Bodice Rippers |
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Anyone else wondering what's on Dabney's Ballin' Bodice Ripper list (per her review today)?
Dabney, please do share (if you don't mind). |
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Dabney
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:11 pm Post subject: It's a big list! |
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Adele Ashworth My Darling Caroline
Anna Campbell Untouched
Anne Mallory Seven Secrets of Seduction
Anne Mallory One Night Is Never Enough
Anne Mallory Three Nights of Sin
Anne Stuart Reckless
Anne Stuart Ruthless
Anne Stuart Breathless
Beverley Kendall A Taste of Desire
Beverley Kendall Sinful Surrender
Carolyn Jewel Scandal
Carolyn Jewel Lord Ruin
Catherine Kean Dance of Desire
Cecilia Grant A Lady Awakened
Loretta Chase Silk Is For Seduction
Christina Dodd A Well Pleasured Lady
Christina Dodd That Scandalous Evening
Christina Dodd One Kiss From You
Christina Dodd Rules of Attraction
Christine Wells Wicked Little Game
Connie Brockway As You Desire
Courtney Milan Unraveled
Courtney Milan Unclaimed
Courtney Milan Unlocked
Courtney Milan Unveiled
Elizabeth Hoyt The Serpent Prince
Elizabeth Hoyt The Leopard Prince
Elizabeth Hoyt The Raven Prince
Elizabeth Hoyt To Taste Temptation
Elizabeth Hoyt To Seduce a Sinner
Eloisa James A Duke of Her Own
Eloisa James A Kiss at Midnight
Eloisa James Fool for Love
Emma Wildes An Indecent Proposition
Emma Wildes Our Wicked Mistake
Grace Burrowes The Heir
Grace Callaway Her Husband's Harlot
Jeannie Lin Butterfly Swords
Jenna Petersen The Unclaimed Duchess
Jennifer Ashley Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie
Jennifer Ashley The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
Jennifer Haymore A Hint of Wicked
Jess Michaels Everything Forbidden
Jess Michaels Taboo
Jillian Hunter The Seduction of an English Scoundrel
Jo Beverley The Dragon's Bride
Jo Goodman The Price of Desire
Jo Goodman Never Love a Lawman
Jo Goodman One Forbidden Evening
Jo Goodman Marry Me
Joanna Bourne The Spymaster's Lady
Joanna Bourne The Black Hawk
Joanna Bourne The Forbidden Rose
Joanna Bourne My Lord and Spymaster
Johanna Lindsey Prisoner of My Desire
Judith Ivory Proposition
Judith James Libertine's Kiss
Julia London The Year of Living Scandalously
Julia Quinn The Duke and I
Julia Quinn The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
Julia Quinn When He Was Wicked
Julia Quinn What Happens in London
Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me
Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway The Lady Most Likely
Julie Anne Long Like No Other Lover
Julie Anne Long I Kissed an Earl
Julie Anne Long What I Did for a Duke
Julie Anne Long To Love a Thief
Julie Anne Long The Secret to Seduction
Karen Hawkins An Affair to Remember
Karen Ranney An Unlikely Governess
Karen Ranney A Scotsman in Love
Karen Ranney The Devil Wears Tartan
Karen Ranney Till Next We Meet
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss The Wolf and the Dove
Kris Kennedy The Irish Warrior
Laura Kinsale Flowers From the Storm
Laura Kinsale The Shadow and the Star
Laura Lee Guhrke Guilty Pleasures
Laura Lee Guhrke Secret Desires of a Gentleman
Lisa Kleypas Again the Magic
Lisa Kleypas The Devil in Winter
Lisa Kleypas Suddenly You
Lisa Kleypas Tempt Me at Twilight
Lisa Kleypas It Happened One Autumn
Lisa Kleypas Secrets of a Summer Night
Lisa Kleypas Mine Till Midnight
Lisa Kleypas Where Dreams Begin
Lisa Valdez Passion
Liz Carlyle The Devil to Pay
Liz Carlyle A Deal With the Devil
Liz Carlyle Wicked All Day
Loretta Chase Captives of the Night
Loretta Chase Last Night's Scandal
Loretta Chase Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase Lord Perfect
Lorraine Heath Always to Remember
Lorraine Heath In Bed With the Devil
Lorraine Heath Waking Up With the Duke
Madeline Hunter By Design
Madeline Hunter Dangerous in Diamonds
Madeline Hunter The Sins of Lord Easterbrook
Madeline Hunter The Rules of Seduction
Madeline Hunter Sinful in Satin
Madeline Hunter Provocative in Pearls
Madeline Hunter Ravishing in Red
Madeline Hunter Secrets of Surrender
Margaret Mallory The Sinner
Margaret Mallory Knight of Desire
Mary Balogh At Last Comes Love
Mary Balogh First Comes Marriage
Mary Balogh Then Comes Seduction
Mary Jo Putney The Wild Child
Meljean Brook The Iron Duke
Melody Thomas A Match Made in Scandal
Melody Thomas Beauty and the Duke
Melody Thomas Claimed by a Scottish Lord
Melody Thomas Must Have Been the Moonlight
Meredith Duran A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
Meredith Duran Bound by Your Touch
Meredith Duran Written on Your Skin
Meredith Duran Wicked Becomes You
Nicola Cornick Desired
Nicole Jordan The Seduction
Pamela Clare Carnal Gift
Sabrina Jeffries How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Sabrina Jeffries Wed Him Before You Bed Him
Sarah MacLean Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord
Sarah MacLean Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
Sherry Thomas Delicious
Sherry Thomas Private Arrangements
Sherry Thomas His at Night
Silvia Violet A Carnal Agreement
Sophie Jordan One Night With You
Sophie Jordan Too Wicked to Tame
Stephanie Laurens Devil's Bride
Stephanie Laurens A Secret Love
Stephanie Laurens The Lady Chosen
Stephanie Laurens Mastered by Love
Suzanne Enoch A Beginner's Guide to Rakes
Suzanne Enoch London's Perfect Scoundrel
T. J. Bennett The Legacy
Tessa Dare Goddess of the Hunt
Tracy Anne Warren My Fair Mistress: A Novel
Tracy Anne Warren Wicked Delights of a Bridal Bed
Tracy MacNish Stealing Midnight
Victoria Dahl A Rake's Guide to Pleasure
Victoria Dahl To Tempt a Scotsman
Meredith Duran The Duke of Shadows
Elizabeth Essex A Sense of Sin
Elizabeth Essex The Danger of Desire
Patricia Gaffney To Have and to Hold
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Dabney
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: Ballin’ Bodice Rippers |
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| Eggletina wrote: | Anyone else wondering what's on Dabney's Ballin' Bodice Ripper list (per her review today)?
Dabney, please do share (if you don't mind). |
I have several "collections" on my Kindle that are books I like enough to want to be able to read again with ease. This one, of historical romances, is the largest.
I also have "Chit Lit I Love," "Bad Guys, Good Sex, True Love," Oh, Oh It's Magic," and, for all the books I want to find the time to read, "Up Next in Love."
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Dabney
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject: Here's my "Chick Lit I Love"--my go to contemporar |
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Andersen, Susan Burning Up
Blake, Toni One Reckless Summer
Blake, Toni Sugar Creek: A Destiny Novel
Bliss, Karina Mr. Unforgettable
Bliss, Karina What the Librarian Did
Crusie, Jennifer Bet Me
Dahl, Victoria Good Girls Don't (Donovan Family)
Dahl, Victoria Lead Me On
Dahl, Victoria Bad Boys Do
Dahl, Victoria Real Men Will
Edwards, Louisa Can't Stand The Heat
Edwards, Louisa On the Steamy Side
Edwards, Louisa Too Hot To Touch
Gibson, Rachel Any Man of Mine
Gibson, Rachel Sex, Lies, and Online Dating
Gibson, Rachel Tangled Up In You
Gibson, Rachel Not Another Bad Date
Gibson, Rachel Nothing But Trouble
Gibson, Rachel True Love and Other Disasters
Gibson, Rachel True Confessions
Harrington, Alexis Home By Morning
Higgins, Kristan Too Good to Be True
Kelley, Inez Sweet as Sin
Kery, Beth Wicked Burn
Mayberry, Sarah One Good Reason
Mayberry, Sarah Anything for You
Mayberry, Sarah All Over You
Mayberry, Sarah She's Got It Bad
Mayberry, Sarah Hot for Him
Mayberry, Sarah Hot Island Nights
McCarthy, Erin Hard and Fast
O'Reilly, Kathleen Sex, Straight Up
O'Reilly, Kathleen Just Surrender...
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Call Me Irresistible
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Dream a Little Dream
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Ain't She Sweet?
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Natural Born Charmer
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Kiss an Angel
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Lady Be Good
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Nobody's Baby But Mine
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Heaven, Texas
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Match Me If You Can
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth It Had to Be You
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth This Heart of Mine
Ridgway, Christie Do Not Disturb
Ridgway, Christie First Comes Love
Ridgway, Christie The Thrill of It All
Ridgway, Christie This Perfect Kiss
Shalvis, Jill Head Over Heels
Shalvis, Jill Animal Attraction
Shalvis, Jill Animal Magnetism
Shalvis, Jill The Sweetest Thing
Shalvis, Jill Simply Irresistible
Warren, Nancy Power Play
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Eggletina
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks Dabney. Fun lists. I haven't tried to organize my Kindle into collections yet. |
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Jenny
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Bodice Rippers?!?
Why are the books on that list called bodice rippers? |
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xina
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| Jenny wrote: | Bodice Rippers?!?
Why are the books on that list called bodice rippers? |
Heh...I was wondering the same. Maybe because they are on the "hot" side?
Also, the font is huge. But, whatever.
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Dabney
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| Jenny wrote: | Bodice Rippers?!?
Why are the books on that list called bodice rippers? |
Here's the answer to that taken from Wikipedia.
| Quote: | The modern romance genre was born in 1972 with Avon's publication of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower, the first romance novel "to [follow] the principals into the bedroom." Aside from its content, the book was revolutionary in that it was one of the first single-title romance novels to be published as an original paperback, rather than being first published in hardcover, and, like the category romances, was distributed in drug stores and other mass-market merchandising outlets. The novel went on to sell 2.35 million copies. Avon followed its release with the 1974 publication of Woodiwiss's second novel, The Wolf and the Dove and two sexy novels by newcomer Rosemary Rogers, Sweet Savage Love and Dark Fires. The latter sold two million copies in its first three months of release. By 1975, Publishers Weekly had reported that the "Avon originals" had sold a combined 8 million copies. The following year over 150 historical romance novels, many of them paperback originals, were published, selling over 40 million copies.
The success of these novels prompted a new style of writing romance, concentrating primarily on historical fiction tracking the monogamous relationship between a helpless heroine and the hero who rescued her, even if he had been the one to place her in danger. The covers of these novels tended to feature scantily clad women being grabbed by the hero, and caused the novels to be referred to as "bodice-rippers." |
The first romances I read as a teen were all historicals--Rosemary Rogers, Barbara Cartland, etc...--and, at the time, they were called bodice rippers. Also, to me, bodice is a word I associate with women's clothing of earlier eras. So, in Dabney-speak, a hot historical a ballin' bodice ripper!
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xina
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So, were there actual bodices Ripped in these titles? Lol! I have read 75% of them and don't remember ripping. Some great titles in your list. not like Rogers though. now those were ripping...bodices that is.
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Diana
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We've been batting around what's a BR ànd what's not for years now. I'd label very few of those books BRs. That wiki entry is shallow and woefully outdated. There's also a huge difference between contemporary romance and chick lit. But whatever, we can label our own personal kindle collections whatever we want.
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Blackjack1
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| Thanks for posting this list, Dabney! I want to look it over in more detail this weekend but I already caught a quick glimpse of some titles from favorite authors like Jo Goodman and Julie Anne Long that I haven't read yet. |
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Ashley
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:41 am Post subject: Kindle lists |
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Dabney,
Could you, umm.... post your "Good Sex" list? 
Thank you.
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Diana
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I've been periodically checking the kindle store for Gaffney's To Have and to Hold. It isn't there. A google search for a digital edition returns only torrent sites. I'm curious to know if you erred in listing it in your kindle collections. I definitely want it but I'm waiting for a legal download.
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Dabney
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| Diana wrote: | | I've been periodically checking the kindle store for Gaffney's To Have and to Hold. It isn't there. A google search for a digital edition returns only torrent sites. I'm curious to know if you erred in listing it in your kindle collections. I definitely want it but I'm waiting for a legal download. |
I don't have that on Kindle. I just love it so much I included it.
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Dabney
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: Kindle lists |
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| Ashley wrote: | Dabney,
Could you, umm.... post your "Good Sex" list?
Thank you. |
| Quote: | Andersen, Susan Be My Baby
Anderson, Toni Sea of Suspicion
Brockmann, Suzanne The Defiant Hero
Brockmann, Suzanne The Unsung Hero
Clare, Pamela Breaking Point (I-Team)
Clare, Pamela Hard Evidence
Clare, Pamela Unlawful Contact
Eden, Cynthia Deadly Heat
Howard, Linda Death Angel: A Novel
Kery, Beth Explosive
Kery, Beth Sweet Restraint
McKenna, Shannon Behind Closed Doors
McKenna, Shannon Extreme Danger
McKenna, Shannon Ultimate Weapon
Rice, Lisa Marie Midnight Man
Rice, Lisa Marie Midnight Run
Roberts, Nora Honest Illusions
Sey, Susan Money, Honey
Sey, Susan Money Shot
St. Claire, Roxanne Edge of Sight
Stuart, Anne Black Ice
Stuart, Anne Cold as Ice
Stuart, Anne Fire and Ice
Stuart, Anne Ice Blue
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