Bodice Ripper defined.

That is the kind of girl I am.  The one that sounds overly formal, the one who would actually use mot juste in a sentence…and not just to sound pretentious.  What do you expect from a kid who grew up with no TV, no friends within a 10 mile radius, and read everything she could get her hands on?  I seriously read practically every book (that I was allowed to) in our libraries (albeit small ones, with even smaller sections I was allowed to get books from).

Maybe this is why the contraband I hid under my matteress and shoved down jacket sleeves was books rather than anything truly risque.  Yeah, I was a real rebel.  What with my Christian fiction and occassional top 40 recorded on a tape (yes, I’m that old!).