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

13/11/2025 1h 46min Temporada 2 Episodio 8
Food for Thought: Holiday Feasts, Mamrie Hart, and the Books We’re Thankful For

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Episode Synopsis

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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