Choosing Glee: 10 Rules to Finding Inspiration, Happiness, and the Real You, Jenna Ushkowitz, Sheryl Berk, St. Martin's Press, 2013, 1250030617, 9781250030610, 224 pages. Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz, a.k.a. "Tina," inspires fans to invoke positive thinking into everything they do in this inspirational scrapbook.Time to Gleek out!Fans of the breakout musical series will flock to Ushkowitz’s heartfelt and practical guide on how to be your true self, gain self-esteem, and find your inner confidence. In Choosing Glee, JennaÐ’Â shares her life in thrall to performance, navigating the pendulum swing of rejection and success, and the lessons she learned along the way. Included are her vivid anecdotes of everything before and after Glee: her being adopted from South Korea; her earlyÐ’Â appearances in commercials and onÐ’Â Sesame Street; her first Broadway role in The King and I; landing the part of Tina on Glee;Ð’Â herÐ’Â long-time friendships with Lea Michele (a.k.a. Rachel Berry) and Kevin McHale (a.k.a. Artie); and touring the world singing the show’s hits to stadium crowds. Peppered throughout are photos, keepsakes, lists, and charts that illustrate Jenna's life and theÐ’Â choices she has madeÐ’Â that have shaped her positive outlook.Choosing Glee will speak to theÐ’Â show's demographic who are often coping withÐ’Â the very stresses and anxieties the teenage characters on Glee face. ThinkÐ’Â The Happiness Project for a younger generation: With itsÐ’Â uplifting message and intimate format, teens canÐ’Â learn how, exactly, to choose glee.. Listen up, Tigger , Sheryl Berk, 2000, Nature, 32 pages. Tigger learns the true meaning of listening.. Britney Spears' heart to heart , Britney Spears, Lynne Spears, Sheryl Berk, 2000, Biography & Autobiography, 134 pages. Britney Spears makes success look simple. As Brit will tell you, though, success is hard work -- you need talent, belief in yourself, and someone else who believes in you. For .... 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Included are her vivid anecdotes of everything before and after Glee: her being adopted from South Korea; her early appearances in commercials and on Sesame Street; her first Broadway role in The King and I; landing the part of Tina on Glee; her long-time friendships with Lea Michele (a.k.a. Rachel Berry) and Kevin McHale (a.k.a. Artie); and touring the world singing the show’s hits to stadium crowds. Peppered throughout are photos, keepsakes, lists, and charts that illustrate Jenna's life and the choices she has made that have shaped her positive outlook. I am all about "Glee". So pre-ordering Jenna Ushkowitz's new book "Choosing Glee" was only natural. I have to say this book is just beautiful. The pictures of Jenna and/or the Glee gang is worth the purchase price alone. Jenna's offers up some fun background stories about her life and some Glee adventures. The book is about how Jenna stays positive and focuses on reaching her goals and being true to herself. Its presented in a fun, entertaining, and positive way. I do think the book could appeal to the younger audience as well as to the adult market. Most of her principles explained in the book can apply to both age groups. The only negative is that I think that the advice given could have been more detailed and maybe provided some further explanation. The chapter self evaluations were cute and practical and I really loved some of the quotes provided. The portion about Chris Colfer was especially poignant and beautiful. Darren Criss offered up a memorable quote and I loved Jenna's uplifting songlists. She also quotes a song that I find very meaningful to my life personally "Chasing Pavements" by Adele. Overall this book itself is quite a joy and I am committed to following anything else Jenna may release. I am a huge fan of Jenna Ushkowitz, and have been since Glee premiered. Watching her in and reading interviews and seeing her in behind the scenes footage, and following her on twitter, I have always found her to be an extremely inspirational person. Without going into too much detail, she is the first Celebrity I have ever connected with and felt like I actually got something out of being a fan of hers. Her constant positivity is infectious and she has always reminded me that you don't have to focus on the bad things in life, you can choose to see the positive side of it, something that I forgot a long time ago. Due to all of that, I was so excited for this book, and considered it my bible before I even read it. After it finally came out though, and I did read it, I was blown away, it was so much more than I was even expecting, and I was expecting A LOT out of it. The way she practices what she preaches and uses, sometimes extremely personal, stories from her own life as examples is inspiring and so brave of her to do. It's given me even more respect for her than I already had. I always felt like I had a pretty good idea about her life, how she grew up and landed her part on Glee from interviews she's done over the years, and thought maybe those bits would be a bit repetitive to me, but she covers the spectrum of her life in so much more detail through all those stories than I was expecting and it was so eye opening. Her style of writing feels like she's talking TO you and not AT you, which makes it so much easier to take everything in and the way she breaks it down into little steps instead of feeling like you'd be changing your whole life made me walk away from this book with the feeling that I could actually do anything.Read more › Jenna Ushkowitz has shown herself to be a triple-threat--actor, singer, and now author. The book is full of really positive, affirming messages and action steps, and the design is spectacular: every time you turn the page the book looks new and beautiful, and it always seems to reflect the message that the pages convey. Her upbeat attitude and perspective is infectious. I happened to nab this book from the library; love Jenna on Glee and I'm all about trying to stay positive. I think I was a bit too old to fit this book's target market, but I enjoyed it all the same. This book would be particularly helpful to tweens/teens dealing with middle/high school growing pains. It's done in a very bright, scrapbooky-yearbook style, which adds to the fun, and Jenna does a great job of relating to the difficulties of growing up and pursuing happiness.