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April 18

Bookworm: The Capital flips through a few local books

Rob Hiaasen
Contact Reporterrhiaasen@capgaznews.com

Books are far from dead — in fact, they continue to breed like brainy, creative, adventurous rabbits.

We should know. The Capital is a satellite library for books of local interest, labors of love shipped to us in fine, sturdy envelopes or left at our doorstep on Bestgate Road.

We know a little something about what it takes to write a book, so, authors, know that we appreciate the effort. Writing a book invites rejection and rarely success. Writing a book is flat-out hard work.

Consider these few blurbs a humble token of acknowledgment.

“My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain:” by Joseph D. Tydings with John W. Frece. Forward by Joe Biden. (Texas A & M University Press; memoir) Tydings was a U.S. senator from Maryland from 1965 to 1971. His adoptive father was Millard Tydings, who served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years. Frece, who lives in Annapolis, was State House bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun and his work occasionally appears in The Capital’s Opinion section. From those political and journalism chops comes a front-row seat to Maryland politics from the 1950s through the ’70s — a time when bipartisanship was a real thing.

“Progressives in Navy Blue” by Scott Mobley. (Naval Institute Press; nonfiction) Mobley, a Naval Academy graduate, has undertaken no small mission: tracing the institutional, intellectual and cultural evolution of the U.S. Navy during a defining quarter-century, 1873 to 1898. Then, a modern “warrior-engineer identity” was born.

“Chester Midshipmouse” by Susan Weisberg (Brass Button Books; children’s fiction) Features a young house mouse gutting out plebe summer at the Naval Academy. “I believe the story, and the story-within-the-story … is certainly timely as Chester’s adventures begin with Induction Day and continue through plebe summer,” Weisberg said. She’ll sign books at the Midshipmen Store on June 28.

“Cycle Maryland,” “Paddle Maryland,” “Hike Maryland” by Bryan MacKay (Johns Hopkins University Press; guides) MacKay is a senior lecturer emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A Marylander, MacKay is an avid everything — cyclist, paddler, hiker, naturalist, writer and speaker. If you can’t find something interesting to do, explore or learn in his books, then stay home on your computer.

“Death at the Day Lily Cafe” by Wendy Sand Eckel (Minotaur Books; mystery) Annapolis’ Wendy Sand Eckel, author of ”Murder at Barclay Meadow,” returns to her Chesapeake Bay setting to spin another yarn of a small-town dream, small-town murder and small-town recipes. Her books have been called cozy and her recipes tasty. We have our eye on her caramelized onion grilled cheese and 10-minute tomato soup. Then we’ll read.

Rob Hiaasen is assistant editor at The Capital. He can be reached at rhiaasen@capgaznews.com.

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