Love Letters Romance Book Club
Featured Book
The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley: A Sapphic Regency Romance inspired by Austen (Austentatious, 2)
Pride, prejudice, and…lessons in love?
Jane Austen meets My Fair Lady in this joyful, clever opposites-attract Sapphic romance featuring Caroline Bingley and Darcy’s younger sister, Georgiana.
Being snubbed by Mr Darcy—passed over for Elizabeth Bennet, no less—is humiliating.
Being told she’s arrogant and unkind, and that if she doesn’t mend her ways, she might never find love…that’s simply preposterous. Isn't it?
Feeling the sting of Darcy’s rejection, Caroline Bingley does what any self-respecting woman of means would do: she hatches a plan. Get Georgiana Darcy, the epitome of grace and sweetness, to teach Caroline how to be perfect like her.
But Caroline’s transformation from status-hungry socialite to proper marriage material won’t be easy. She must be charming, and even worse… she must be kind. And Georgiana herself isn’t so sure about playing fairy godmother. Beneath Miss Darcy's polished facade lies an entirely different set of struggles.
As the two grow closer, Caroline discovers she’s less interested in securing a man, and more intrigued by the woman helping her to reform her character. Before long, their lessons in finding love and acceptance blossom into something completely unexpected…
"McLeod takes the archetypal Austen mean girl and gives her a soul, a journey, and a voice.... The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley warms the heart like a great cup of tea, and proves that everyone deserves love, even the sharpest among us." —Emma R. Alban, USA Today bestselling author of Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend
"A hilarious and worthy addition to the new canon of Austen reimaginings. If you love to yearn, you'll love this!" —TJ Alexander, USA Today bestselling author of A Gentleman's Gentleman
"An absolute delight." —Gabe Cole Novoa, author of Stonewall honor book Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
The Austentatious Series
• Book 1: The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet
• Book 2: The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
2026 Book Club Titles are as follows: October: Dearly Departed November: Pot Shot December: The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley
Featured Author
McLeod, Lindz
About the Venue
Brazos Bookstore
Houston's oldest independent bookstore, operating since 1974. We are a general bookstore with a curated inventory in fiction, poetry, romance, horror, graphic novels, works in translation, history, media studies, local interest, and children's books. Brazos hosts or participates in over 300 events a year, in-store and with some of Houston's premiere cultural and educational organizations, such as Inprint, Performing Arts Houston, Asia Society, Rice University, and University of Houston.
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Mrinalini Levin-Srinivasan and Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan - BIRD/DOG
Brazos welcomes Mrinalini Levin-Srinivasan and Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan on Monday, October 26 to discuss their book Bird/Dog. The authors will be in conversation with DaQuon Wilson. What does home mean to you? Is it a place where you are safe? The freedom to go wherever you please? Or the people who understand you?High above, Bird roams the open sky but dreams of having a home. Down below, Dog has a family, yet longs to discover life beyond the fence. When their separate adventures lead them away from everything familiar, both must navigate uncertainty, new relationships and the surprising ways in which friendship can appear.Told through two very different perspectives, Bird/Dog is a warm and hopeful story about freedom, belonging, individuality and finding your place in the world.Copies of Bird/Dog will be available for purchase at the event. Mrinalini Levin-Srinivasan is a student at Lanier Middle School in Houston, Texas. A highly motivated young writer, Mrinalini benefited from the isolation of the pandemic years, when she found herself reading for hours daily. She is currently a Speech and Debate Team Captain, Lanier Leader, and member of the National Junior Honors Society. She has won numerous writing and speaking competitions at the University Interscholastic League and is the founder of a Banned Books Club. Mrinalini has studied bharatanatyam, Carnatic music, and the clarinet, and is a competitive swimmer with HTX Swims. She has lived in six U.S. states and two countries.Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan is an award-winning author of 15 books for children and adults, published in India and the United States, and the recipient of India’s 2022 National Film Award for Best Narration. Her acclaimed works include It’s Time to Rhyme, winner of PublishingNext’s Children’s Book of the Year 8+ (2022), and Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma. She writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and picture books, with her work appearing in international journals and anthologies. A frequent speaker at literary festivals, Shobha divides her time between California and India, drawing on her cross-cultural experiences as a proud global citizen.DaQuon Wilson is a PhD student in the English department at Rice University, where he studies African American and Black Diasporic literature with an emphasis on children’s literature and social justice. Before coming to Rice, DaQuon worked with Scholastic Book Clubs and earned a B.A. from Emory University.
The Living Read Book Club
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