Summer of Audiobooks

I finished listening to "Peony in Love" which was really good. I enjoyed Snowflower more, but Peony was worth reading or in my case listening to. Women in China had it pretty bad, but they learned to enjoy life through painting, writing, playing musical instruments and embroidery. They found activities to make life fun. They were so suppressed though--that part was sad to me. And what pressure to have sons!

After Peony, I listened to "Beach Road" by James Patterson. It was a short, predictable story. It was a story that takes place in the Hamptons and a young black athelete is accused of murdering his three friends. The lawyer who takes the case teams up with his ex--another attorney. They end up winning the case and the athelete gets off, but of course there's a twist at the end which you can see coming. Towards the end it seemed like Patterson just wanted to hurry up and wrap up the story which was a little dissapointing, but overall it was entertaining.

I'm now listening to Eric Clapton's autobiography, "Clapton". He grew up not knowing that his mother was actually his grandmother and his aunt turned out to be his mother. He talks about the affects this had on his childhood and how he really started to get interested in music in his pre-teenage years. So far it's good.

I finished reading "Echo Park" by Michael Connelly. This is the book club book for August at Jaci's house. This is actually a book in his Harry Bosch series. Harry Bosch is a detective on the LAPD and this book follows him through a case that originated in 1993. There's an inmate on death row who confesses to murdering the victim of the case in 1993 and well it goes on from there. I won't spoil it for anybody from book club, but I couldn't put the book down once I got to the confession part. I liked this mystery and would read more of Connelly's books in the future.