HERALD

8 months later, I’ve probably been struck from everyone’s reader.

I’ve noticed that I go back and forth between music and books. For several months I’ll be in book mode, reading voraciously and relishing the flip of the page; also markedly indifferent to music. Then I’ll suddenly switch for no reason, sick of reading, to thinking about lyrics all day and longing for my next Ellary-free car ride (she is currently obsessed with a CD of nursery rhymes).

I just felt the switch, after a very very long book mode. And I have some listening goals, if you will.

Music I already love but don’t listen to enough:

—The Civil Wars
—Ray LaMontagne
—Arcade Fire

Music I want to get to know:

—Florence and the Machine
—The National (if I were a fish, the hook here would be the song Fake Empire)

Suggestions, anyone?