Listening to Music

Having just finished a good book last night, I realised how used I had become to listening to music whilst reading.

Having sixty or so albums on my ipod, from Mozart to Fleet Foxes, Vaughn Williams to George Winston, I have fallen into another habit. I have become used to starting with the same two albums. The first is Music of the Spheres, Mike Oldfield’s first ‘classical’ album followed by a somewhat ‘guilty’ pleasure. This is Dave Pearce’s Trance Anthems 2009, which makes even this fugly old thing feel years younger.

So my question is quite simple.

Do others need to listen to music whilst reading and, have they fallen into a similar routine, or do you prefer silence. Perhaps some of the authors of this site, who do listen to music, would say whether what they listen to when reading is different to when they write.

Love

Anne G.