The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction by Linda Gray
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Read and Download Ebook The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction... The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction Linda Gray PDF File: The Road to Happiness is Always 1 Under Construction... Read and Download Ebook The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction... The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction Linda Gray The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction Linda Gray To celebrate her 75th birthday, Linda Gray, the iconic star of Dallas and timeless beauty, is sharing her road map to happiness in her revelatory memoir. When Linda Gray, iconic star of Dallas, was twenty years old, a magazine editor coldly rejected her as a model, writing that, perhaps one day, “you might shape into something.” Since then, Linda has been evolving and growing, and has shaped into a role model for women of every age in her grace, beauty, generosity, and wisdom. She’s been through more pain and tragedy than her longtime fans realize, having suffered paralyzing polio as a child, growing up with an alcoholic mother, landing in a emotionally abusive marriage at twenty-two and living by her husband’s rules for sixteen years before she openly rebelled against him to take an acting class. At thirty-eight, Linda got her big break, as Larry Hagman’s wife on Dallas. With fame came a bitter, public divorce, trouble at home with her two kids, and the loss of her beloved sister to breast cancer. Linda got through it all—the challenges of sexism in Hollywood and the pressures of being a single working mom—with a relentlessly positive attitude that kept her cruising, with a few speed bumps, to the place of serenity she thrives in now. To celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday, Linda is opening up about her life for the first time. Inside this book, she tells deeply personal stories with wit, humor, and candor, and reveals how she’s learned to love every day as the blessing it is and to treat herself with the kindness she bestows on friends and strangers alike. Along with wisdom, Linda has accumulated a lot of practical tips about maintaining a healthy lifestyle—how to strengthen and detoxify your body, liberate your mind, and uplift your soul—and shares them as well. Her message to “give, love, and shine, baby, shine” will fill anyone with inspiration to live life to the fullest, and never stop pursuing honesty and joy. The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction Details Date : Published September 8th 2015 by Regan Arts. ISBN : 9781941393093 Author : Linda Gray Format : Hardcover 256 pages Genre : Autobiography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography Download The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction ...pdf Read Online The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction ...pdf Download and Read Free Online The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction Linda Gray PDF File: The Road to Happiness is Always 2 Under Construction... Read and Download Ebook The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction... From Reader Review The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction for online ebook Terri says This book is an auto-biography by Linda Gray. Most of us know her as Sue Ellen on Dallas. She is also the woman whose legs were used for THE GRADUATE movie poster. She was a model and an actress, raised two children and has many life long celebrity friends. This book was filled with antidotes about her life, her time on Dallas and her philosophy. I found most of her information very interesting. I did get a bit tired of all her lists of things to do and believe. However, I would recommend this book for enjoyment. Winter Sophia Rose says Inspirational, Funny & Heartfelt! An Enjoyable Read! I Loved It! Allie Smith says I didn't even know Linda Gray had written a book.! She was my favorite actress (and Sue Ellen my fav character) on Dallas! I'm so grateful I saw this in the bookstore (and shame on her PR team - the woman should have been on some talk shows!). This is a fabulous book! What a life. She is wise and funny. I love her outlook on life and she can tell a hell of a story. One of my favorite memoirs this year. I just wish there was a little more dirt, but she's a class act. Sojourner says It is not often that you come across a book with a title as thought-provoking as The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction by Linda Gray. I was not immediately sure about its author as I couldn’t recollect anything. But I decided to go ahead and ask for an e-galley on the strength of the title. Having read the book, I’m grateful that I took the chance, and I must confess that I learned quite a lot about life and how a painful relationship can pin you down, no matter how far the distance you have traveled together. The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction by Linda Gray is an honest, instructive and informative memoir. One would imagine that a celebrity life like Linda Gray’s would make a dull as she has led an open life. But imagination and real life is quite different, and she has much to tell. What was most revealing was the troubles in her marriage, and how she was tore apart by it. The book also tells of the many struggles in her - of how she lived her child as a polio victim and how she lost her younger sister to cancer. The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction by Linda Gray is simply irresistible and hugely readable. At the heart of the memoir is life-lessons which Linda Gray imparted through her exploration of life’s painful journey, childhood, sex, mental abuse, and how to age gracefully. PDF File: The Road to Happiness is Always 3 Under Construction... Read and Download Ebook The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction... Rhonda Lomazow says Linda Gray has written an honest open book about her real life.She. shares with us the problems in her marriage how she decided to take acting classes & start to act against her husbands wishes.We watch her become a strong independent woman,She meet her fabulous friends even The Liz Y Taylor makes an appearance.Her deep love for Larry Hagman &his wife who made her part of their family,She also,gives valuable advice about heathy eating gracious living &aging.A true delight to get to meet the real Linda Gray. Jonathan says A bit of a rambling review coming up I'm afraid. I was hooked on Dallas when it started on TV in the late 70s. Soon enough Sue Ellen Ewing became my favourite character, and I began my life-long platonic love affair with Linda Gray. The great big eyes, expressive mouth, the mix of strength and vulnerability made Sue Ellen a perfect soap heroine in my young eyes. As we went into the 80s the (developed) world became obsessed with 'big is better', money, power and everything that Dallas represented. People were expendable, feelings came second to work and success Eventually I began to reject what I saw on the small screen, and to change my ideas about what I wanted out of life, and what was admirable in people and TV characters. Now, as I am about to re-embark on Season 9, it still makes me laugh and cry, but I have a different perspective on it, America and big business. I still love Sue Ellen of course. I was quite excited when I saw that Linda Gray had written a book. Unlike with most celebrity autobiographies she had actually waited until she was 75 to write it. With this much experience there is no need for unnecessary filler information (although ironically she does actually share her good, healthy breakfast ideas with us), so it is about key points in her life, and what her experiences have taught her. The title of the book is purposely self-helpish, and Linda does not shy away from her California woowoo (as she puts it) background. Bringing up her family in the 60s and 70s she was eating organic long before it became generally available, attending therapy sessions, dealing with an alcoholic mother and a controlling husband. Life experiences that, organic food aside, would undoubtedly come in valuable for a certain future role! Having divorced her husband in the mid-80s Linda Gray continued on her journey of self-discovery. The book is full of lessons, although it is not very preachy, just thought-provoking. There are lists, recipes, funny stories and very sad experiences. There was one worrying moment in the book during a journey Linda made to see a healer in Brazil, when I thought she might be getting a bit religious on me (she is quite a spiritual person I think, unlike me), but I needn't have worried. Anyway, you can probably tell that I enjoyed this fine, amusing and enlightening book. Yes I am completely biased in my opinion and happily so. Ronda Kelley says Loved this book! I admit I was curious about it because growing up I was a huge fan of the TV show Dallas. I came away from this book with a huge respect for Linda Gray. She is upbeat, positive & determined. I loved her life lessons & advice. It was thought-provoking & there were so many tidbits I took away from it. Great job! PDF File: The Road to Happiness is Always 4 Under Construction..