Food for Thought: Holiday Feasts, Mamrie Hart, and the Books We’re Thankful For

Comedian, writer, and foodie extraordinaire Mamrie Hart joins Joe in the Book Lounge to talk about her new cookbook All I Think About Is Food, her must-haves for holiday hosting, and why laughter really is the secret ingredient.

Then, Carmen, Kevin Norman, and Meara pull up a chair to share the books they’re most thankful for this holiday season. A feast of laughs, stories, and reads you’ll want seconds of! 🦃📚 

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Link to our full book list: 

Find all the books by our guests and mentioned in this episode here: https://www.libbylife.com/blog/food-for-thought-holiday-feasts-mamrie-hart-and-the-books-we-re-thankful-for-book-lounge-by-libby-season-2-episode-8  

Follow the guests & guest hosts:  

Segment 1: 

• Mamrie Hart - Instagram , podcast: This Might Get Weird 

Segment 2:  

• Carmen - link 

• Kevin T. Norman – link 

• Meara - link 

Guest host recommendations: 

Carmen 

• Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White 

• Signal to Noise - Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

Kevin 

• Inferno’s Heir - Tiffany Wang 

• Black Salt Queen – Samantha Bansil 

Meara 

• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty 

• UnWind - Neal Shusterman 

Joe  

• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes 

• The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket 

• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison 

• You – Caroline Kepnes 

• Sailor Moon volume 1 – Naoko Takeuchi 

• Cardcaptor Sakura volume 1 - CLAMP 

• Tsubasa volume 1 - CLAMP 

• Holic volume 1 - CLAMP 

• I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 1 - Okura 

• Sailor Moon volume 1 – Naoko Takeuchi 

• Cardcaptor Sakura volume 1 - CLAMP 

• Tsubasa volume 1 - CLAMP 

• Holic volume 1 - CLAMP 

• I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 1 - Okura 

• The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune 

• Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega 

Time stamps: 

00:00:00 Title 

00:00:22 Intro 

00:01:20 Segment 1 with Mamrie Hart! 

00:53:54 BREAK – check out these cozy Fall Reads from Kensington Books 

00:56:08 Segment 2 with Carmen, Kevin Norman & Meara! 

01:42:06 Outro 

Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode in Libby. Library friends can add these titles to their digital collections for free in OverDrive Marketplace and Kanopy. Check out our Cumulative List for the whole season, or this list for today’s episode! 

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