Hi everyone, welcome to my birthday week!! I begin the last year of my forties and boy has it been a wild ride!! This week is not a post about mine and my brother’s birthday but a review post on an amazing memoir that graced my bookshelf some years ago. For those of you who grew up in the 1980’s, you’ll find this a book you won’t be able to put down. Press the button below to see more…
Title: The Road to Happiness* is always under construction
Author: Linda Gray
Genre: Autobiography
Publication details: Regan Arts; NY, 2015
ISBN: 9781941393093 (Hardcover)
What this book is about: 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. Linda Gray had been through pain and tragedy in her early years before her big break at the age of thirty-eight when she was cast as Larry Hagman’s wife in Dallas. With fame came a 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 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 75th birthday, Linda is opening up about her life for the first time. Inside this book, she tells deeply personal stories with wit, humour, and candor, and reveals how she’s learned to love every day as the blessing it is to treat herself with 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 share 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.
My review: Wow!! What an amazing piece of work!! Most of the time as Linda spoke of her role as Sue Ellen on Dallas, I kept hearing the theme song playing in my head!! What a fascinating life she’s led, not the emotionally abusive husband and divorce, but the rest of it!! All that fame from Dallas and the modelling and advertising she’d done before. I didn’t think that she’d been such a lovely, down-to-earth person. I like how this memoir doesn’t follow a specific time line and jumps from present to past, this way we get to see a more rounded image of her life. The chapter headings are really cool and quirky and I enjoyed the life lessons that she’s learned. Linda includes a few recipes here and there, giving readers a bit of insight into her healthy lifestyle. And the best part for me is that she includes all the books and principles that have motivated and helped her success in her life!! An amazing read of an iconic and stunning woman!!
My rating: 4⭐
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