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  

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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