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.

Books

• 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
• John Green
• 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
• Brené Brown
• 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

Everything Else

• Showmance with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz (PodcastOne)
• Marymount Manhattan College
• 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)
• Playwrights Horizons
• Reese Witherspoon
• Reese’s Book Club
• “How Many Books Did The Average American Read In The Last Year? This New Study May Surprise You” (Kerri Jarema, Bustle)
• Kevin McHale
• Becca Tobin
• Ira Madison III
• “#KeepIt with Ira Madison III” (Showmance Podcast)
• Keep It (Crooked Media)
• Ira on Twitter
• Kara Brown
• “‘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)
• Oprah’s Book Club
• Goodreads
• Kindle
• Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix)
• Brené Brown Ted Talk
• Book Culture (New York, NY)
• Milo Ventimiglia
• Amanda Seyfried

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