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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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Book Series Review: The Dune Chronicles: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985). Frank Herbert.

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Today I'm doing something a little different.  Instead of writing a review of one book, I'm doing a quick summary of a series of rel...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Movie Review: Te Ata (2021). Netflix.

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This is a short historical docudrama about an early 20th century young Chickasaw woman from Oklahoma, known as Te Ata, who became a famous a...

Book Review: The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb (2019). Sam Kean.

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This history book is an account of the small number of scientists, OSS (U.S. Office of Strategic Services) and SOE (British Special Operatio...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

From Wayne: Blog News and Brand New Driver Song Release.

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As most readers know, The Memory Cache blog is my personal platform for sharing my writing, ideas, useful information and reviews with a re...

Book Review: In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (2018). Nathaniel Philbrick.

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Another excellent popular American history work by Philbrick, this book covers the last three years of the American Revolution, focusing on ...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Book Review: Children Who Remember Previous Lives (2001). Ian Stevenson.

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Some years ago I heard about the work of a University of Virginia Medical School psychiatrist, Dr. Jim B. Tucker, who has spent his long aca...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Miss Fisher's Mysteries. Seasons 1-3 (2012-2015). Amazon Prime (Acorn).

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Although this popular Australian mystery series had an amateurish feel to it (or perhaps it was just done that way to deliberately mimic a m...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Book Review: Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine (2016). Antonio Garcia Martinez.

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Chaos Monkeys is a gossipy but amusing personal account of life in the fast lane of post-2008 crash Wall Street investment firms, Silicon V...
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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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