Drama Is Optional

Judee Ausnow
iUniverse, Inc. (2007)
ISBN 9780595425631
Reviewed by Anthony Pettrone (age 14) for Reader Views (7/07)


“Drama is Optional” is a short book, less than 90 pages, but it gives you a lot to think about in those pages. What kid doesn't want to be the coolest?  The most popular?  Or, just a kid that gets along with everyone? I think all kids want that but really don't know how to find what they really want…which when you think about it, really is happiness. So many kids today are looking in all the wrong places for happiness. They think looks, clothes, music and sports are the way to happiness, when the truth is, happiness can't come until you are happy with yourself. There are too many choices out there for teens today. And a lot of those choices are really bad ones. But the author of “Drama is Optional” makes it simple for teens to figure out what is what in her book.

Discussing making good choices, having healthy relationships, what a healthy weight is and how to be happy with it, who you are as a person, and how to forgive people who have hurt you are just some of the points the author covers in this book.    

This book really hits all the points that kids struggle with everyday.   It seems to me that if this book were required reading for human development classes, then more kids would be happier with who they are, and where they are headed, and fewer kids would make bad choices trying to find what works for them in their lives.

Get “Drama is Optional” for the teen in your life or buy it for yourself. It can't hurt to read it and it sure can help!   As for me, I got some great pointers from this book and will be suggesting it to friends to read as well!

Reviewed by Tabytha Joy (age 15) for Reader Views (7/07)

“Drama Is Optional” is a book that has easy ways to get rid of all the drama in your life. This book explains that your mind controls what happens in your life. If you have good thoughts, all good things will happen to you, even when it doesn’t seem like it right then. If you have bad thoughts, bad things will happen to you throughout your life. If you focus on what you don t want in life, you will get it. But if you focus on what you do want in life, and not think about what you don’t want, you will accomplish what you do want in life. And life would be much easier and better for you.  “Drama Is Optional” explains that you have the power to create what happens in your life. Nothing can change your life but you. You can make your life good, or bad. That’s for you to decide.

In my opinion, “Drama Is Optional” makes some really good points. I like how the author creates chapters on several different subject lines that relate to each other in some which way. I also like how the author chose to give some simple suggestions on how to change the way you look at things. This book would be best for preteens for that fact that it’s easier to change when you are not in a bad habit. But it’s also important for a teenager to read this book because it gives them the opportunity to change their future before it happens.

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