The one hundred seventy-sixth album: #176 Derek & The Dominos -Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
On the other side of our rock developments, it feels like this is 1970s rock settling into its blues rock element. The Eric Clapton-fronted album is full of blues rock songs that sound good, with well written love songs (although the songs also draw on other topics - it makes for a catchier title though). It comes with some good ballads, as well as more powerful songs, although even the latter feels somewhat subdued and don't have the full rock impact. Instead, it works well as something to drift along on, rather than being in your face. It's pleasant and works well for the themes it's trying to set up, especially when the longer songs come in.
The eightieth book: #69 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
List-wise, this really enters the era of Austen, with a bunch of them clustered together interspersed with a few others. Having seen Pride and Prejudice, but not being familiar with the rest of her work, this was the work to partially tell me how I'd do on this one. In the end, I came away with this fairly well. I've sometimes struggled with these romantic novels and I'm glad Austen abandoned her planned epistolary format for this as the action made it a lot more readable. It kept me quite engaged, with good dialogue, some fun observations and a good set up for the full story. So far, this felt like a good introduction and I hope it will keep up.