Helen
Neill, chair of environmental studies, has a mix of fiction
and nonfiction engaging her attention. In the fiction category: The
Ex Files: A Novel by Jane Moore, The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and Don't Know How She Does
It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson.
Nonfiction works include The Princessa: Michiavelli for Women by
Harriet Rubin and The One-Minute Organizer Plain and Simple by
Donna Smallin. Also on Neill's list are two works by Rudulofo Anaya: Serafina's
Stories and Jemez Springs.
The
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown continues to hit the faculty favorite's
list, appearing on the bedside of Stuart Mann, dean of the
William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. Mann
is also reading The Good Earth by Pearl Buck and trying
to refine his golf game with Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible.
But his must-read, as it should be for any dean of the UNLV College
of Hotel Administration, is Jerry and Flossie Vallen's history of
the college (see The Right Place).
UNLV-TV
manager Laurie Fruth says she is saving Saturday by
Ian McEwan for a long weekend and The Mermaid Chair by Sue
Monk Kidd for those waning hot autumn days beside the swimming pool.
In the meantime, she finished Middlemarch by George Eliot,
and is about half way through The Best American Essays 2004.
