Juggling

Like so many of us, I am juggling 'reading' in three different formats. Beloved paper, ereading with the Kindle Touch, and audio books.
Regarding the audio books, I do best with fiction, that is light on the ear and dialogue-driven. The work that begs to be savored and  reviewed, is frustrating. Right now I am with Erik Larsen In the Garden of the Beasts, a narrative of an American diplomatic family in 1930s Germany. A few years ago I absorbed his Devil in the White City with squeamish pleasure.
My ereading is an odd mix, mostly what I have picked up for free or as an Amazon special. Right now it is the current Best American Mysteries of 2011. Short stories have appealed to me since college. I admire their compact pleasures, particularly suited for people who can only read in short bursts.  I pick up my current reading choices in short stories from the radio. I am a huge fan of Selected Shorts, and New Yorker Fiction podcasts. Ron Carlson, Sherman Alexie, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, and Tobias Wolff to mention a few, are some of my current favorites. As I mentioned. I became a fan of short fiction in college, but I remember with much warmth my discovery, probably in middle school, of O.Henry's pleasures. I have about a half dozen very old hardback editions, before they pretty much disappeared from used book stores and book fairs.