So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Commander Troi]

Just started The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire.

 

[somebuddyX]

What? Some kind of bodice-ripper?

Meanwhile, I'm now between Inferno and Purgatorio, in the Divine Comedy.

Ha, maybe! Is that what they're called? The first time I googled the author her Instagram said "See you at the ripped bodice" and I wondered what that meant. This story is just like some love triangle in a New York apartment block. It's just very low key though and I love that.

 

[Christopher]

Ha, maybe! Is that what they're called? The first time I googled the author her Instagram said "See you at the ripped bodice" and I wondered what that meant.

Here's a decent brief summary: https://wordsmith.org/words/bodice_ripper.html

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Closest I've gotten to ever reading that genre would probably be playing Amy Briggs' interactive romance Infocom game, Plundered Hearts (which has the distinction of being the only Infocom game in which the player-avatar is always specifically female).

I think I was first exposed to the term in a promotional article about the game, in Infocom's customer newsletter, The Status Line (formerly The New Zork Times).