For years (and years...), I've wanted to change up the blog and I've made the decision to finally move Books Etc. over to Substack. ...

I, like most people, fell immediately in love with Heather Marshall’s debut novel Looking for Jane when I read it back in 2022. It was intr...

I love a good, lighthearted romance and that’s what I expected with Susannah Nix’s The Love Code . It’s pretty much what I got but I still f...

It’s been awhile since I’ve devoured a book in one sitting but the long weekend was too good an opportunity to pass up and I just could not ...

I’m so glad I found Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sisters books way back in 2019. The series was an absolute delight and I’ve since purchased a cou...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I will enjoy a book *that* much more when there’s a nod to Jane Austen (it’s also a truth that I...

I’ve been reading Natalie Jenner’s work since her debut novel, The Jane Austen Society , was released in 2020. She writes really thoughtful ...