Ep. 79 When Reading Doesn't Feel Like Work with Jenna Ushkowitz
You might know her from Glee or Showmance Podcast , but today you're going to see actress and producer, Jenna Ushkowitz in a whole new way. She sits down with us to talk about her reading habits and why, as a type A person, she struggles with reading sometimes feeling like "work". We also discuss sourcing material for TV and film, book buying bans, and her love of canine protagonists.
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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 Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Educated by Tara Westover
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ladies Who Punch by Ramin Setoodeh
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Surender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Yes Please by Amy P
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Quiet by Susan Cain
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Bunny Tales by Izabella St. James
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Choosing Glee by Jenna Ushkowitz
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
What Happened by Hilary Rodham Clinton
Showmance with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz (PodcastOne)
The King and I (Christopher Renshaw, 1996)
Piedmont Light Opera Theatre
Glee (Fox)
Spring Awakening (Michael Mayer, 2006)
Twinsters ( Samantha Futerman & Ryan Miyamoto, 2015)
Once on This Island (Michael Arden, 2017)
A Strange Loop (Michael Jackson, 2019)
"How Many Books Did The Average American Read In The Last Year? This New Study May Surprise You" (Kerri Jarema, Bustle)
"#KeepIt with Ira Madison III" (Showmance Podcast)
Keep It (Crooked Media)
"'Straight Talk': Jada Pinkett Smith To Star In Pilot From Kara Brown And Rashida Jones At NBCUniversal's Peacock" (Shadow and Act)
"The Short Stacks 19: Ramin Setoodeh//Ladies Who Punch" (The Stacks)
"#18: Oprah Confronts James Frey | TV Guide's Top 25 | Oprah Winfrey Network" (OWN, Youtube.com)
"Author John Green: The 60 Minutes interview" (60 Minutes, CBS)
"Ep. 64 The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams -- The Stacks Book Club (Lori Gottlieb)" (The Stacks)
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (Exactly Right)
Crime Junkie (audiochuck | Ashley Flowers)
Monster: The Zodiac Killer (iHeartRadio & Tenderfoot TV)
Cold (KSL Podcasts | Wondery)
To Live and Die in LA (Tenderfoot TV & Cadence 13)
"Jonathan Van Ness of ‘Queer Eye’ Comes Out" (Alex Hawgood, The New York Times)
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix)
Book Culture (New York, NY)
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