The Memory Cache

The Memory Cache is the personal blog site of Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer and musician. It features short reviews of books, movies and TV shows, and posts on other topics of current interest.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First. Jeff Goodell (2023).

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I read this climate change non-fiction book some months ago, and it’s taken me a while to get around to writing a review of it, but I believ...

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Book Review: Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters. Brian Klaas (2024).

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In one of my favorite lines from my song Strangers , I posed a rhetorical question: “Who can trace the mysterious chain of events that now...

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Book Review: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (2016). Sebastian Junger.

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This 2016 book by Sebastian Junger, the noted action journalist and chronicler of people under extreme duress, whether at sea, as in The Per...

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Book Review: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (2019). Ronan Farrow.

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An extremely well-written, fast-paced true-life autobiographical thriller, in which the multi-talented NBC reporter and New Yorker writer d...

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Book Review: This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021). Michael Pollan.

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Michael Pollan has built a career and following as a writer by specializing in telling stories about food, and our relationship to it. In ...

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Wayne Parker: I'm Wayne Parker, a Seattle-based writer, musician, and former IT professional (now retired). My main purpose in creating this blog is to write and share short reviews of good books I've read, and good movies and TV I've seen, for your use and entertainment, as well as for my own reference. In the future, I hope to add occasional posts on other topics of interest and opinion as well. Please drop by frequently, and see what's new!

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