Food for Thought: Holiday Feasts, Mamrie Hart, and the Books We’re Thankful For | Book Lounge by Libby Season 2 Episode 8

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! 🦃📚 

Find all the books by our guests and mentioned in this episode at the bottom of this article!

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 

• 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 

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Book List for the Episode:

Books by Mamrie Hart:

You Deserve a Drink 

I’ve Got This Round

All I Think About is Food

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White 

Signal to Noise - Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

Inferno’s Heir - Tiffany Wang 

Tempest’s Queen – Tiffany Wang 

Black Salt Queen – Samantha Bansil 

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman 

Once Upon a Time in the North – Philip Pullman 

The Collectors – Philip Pullman 

The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman 

The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman 

Lyra’s Oxford – Philip Pullman 

Serpentine – Philip Pullman 

The Golden Compass – The Graphic Novel – Philip Pullman 

The Subtle Knife – The Graphic Novel – Philip Pullman 

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty 

UnWind - Neal Shusterman 

UnStrung - Neal Shusterman 

UnWholly - Neal Shusterman 

UnSouled - Neal Shusterman 

UnDivided - Neal Shusterman 

UnBound - Neal Shusterman 

Chrysanthemum - Kevin Henkes  

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse - Kevin Henkes 

The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket 

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison 

You – Caroline Kepnes 

Hidden Bodies – Caroline Kepnes 

You Love Me – Caroline Kepnes 

For You and Only You – Caroline Kepnes 

You First – 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 

I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 2 - Okura 

I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 3 - Okura 

I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 4 - Okura 

I Think Our Son Is Gay volume 5 - Okura 

Hirayasumi volume 1 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 2 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 3 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 4 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 5 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 6 – Keigo Shinzo 

Hirayasumi volume 7 – Keigo Shinzo 

The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune 

Somewhere Beyond the Sea – TJ Klune 

Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega 

The Golden Frog Games - Claribel A. Ortega 

House of Elephants - Claribel A. Ortega 

Scepter of Memories - Claribel A. Ortega