
Chelsea Devantez, host of the Celebrity Book Club podcast, returns to discuss our January Book Club pick The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis. In breaking down her memoir, we get into Mariah’s relationships, her experience of race and her dynamic with her parents. We also couldn’t help but compare aspects of Mariah’s story to what Prince Harry shares in his new memoir Spare.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be in February 2023.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis
- Mariah Carey
- Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Glitter (Vondie Curtis-Hall, 2001)
- Mariah Carey’s The Meaning of Mariah (with Lydia Popovich) (Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez)
- Dreamlover (Mariah Carey, 1993)
- Fantasy Remix featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Mariah Carey, 2003)
- Can’t Take That Away (Mariah Carey, 1999)
- Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971)
- Emotions (Mariah Carey, 1991)
- Vision of Love (Mariah Carey, 1990)

- Honey (Mariah Carey, 1997)
- Julliard School
- Jennifer Lopez
- Aretha Franklin
- Diana Ross
- Ariana Grande
- Macklemore
- Wynonna Judd
- Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey, 1994)
- O Holy Night (Mariah Carey, 1994)
- All I Want for Christmas is You (Mariah Carey, 1994)
- Harry & Meghan (Netflix)
- Meghan Markle
- The Duality of Diva with Mariah Carey (Archetypes, Spotify)
- 1992 Los Angeles Riots
- OJ Simpson Trial
- Rashida Jones
- Tommy Mottola
- Derek Jeter
- Alex Rodriguez
- Anytime You Need a Friend (Mariah Carey, 1993)
- Bad Bunny
- CC Sabathia
- Carson Kressley
- Carson Daly
- Princess Diana
- Ashanti
- Marilyn Monroe
- My Story by Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht
- Da Brat
- Jermaine Dupri
- Always Be My Baby (Mariah Carey, 1995)
- Daydream (Mariah Carey, 1995)
- Rainbow (Mariah Carey, 1999)
- Nia Vardalos
- Faith Evans
- Jessica Simpson
- The Peninsula Hotel
- Mariah Carey’s surprise appearance on Total Request Live MTV 2001
- “Ep. 248 For the Love of Celebrity Memoirs with Chelsea Devantez” (The Stacks)
- Advice in The Stacks with Traci Thomas: Nonfiction Tropes and Pressure to Read Black Authors (Traci Thomas, shereads.com)
- Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
- Paul Bettany
- Jennifer Connelly
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey audiobook
- Bryan Tanaka
- Nick Cannon
- Whitney Houston
- Celine Dion
- The Rarities (Mariah Carey, 2020)
- Prince Harry’s Memoir The Spare (with Nikki Glaser) (Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez)
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- Will by Will Smith
- Join The Stacks Pack
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Brandon Kyle Goodman
- Vella Lovell
- Cree Myles
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
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