What's got my attention this week #76

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

Barbara Taylor-Bradford, who gave us the 80s classic A Woman of Substance, and sold 90 million books, died aged 91

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• I enjoyed this essay on Barbara Taylor-Bradford, and the way “women’s commercial fiction” is sneered at. (gift link)
• And by the same token,

Pandora Sykes

spent a month reading Coleen Hoover books and the result might well make you take a long hard look at yourself.
• Why 500 women over 50 posed nude.
•

Poorna Bell

is righteous on people who shame you about wanting to be paid.
• ICYMI, here’s yesterday’s post on hope- and succour-giving books to gift this holiday season.
• Love this piece by

Clover Stroud

about what she learnt from her first Thanksgiving.
• “I’m 56, I’m not dead, why is a late night out such a big deal?”