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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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Book Review: The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (2020). Steve Olson.

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In my senior year at university as a political science major, I wrote two long papers on different aspects of the Manhattan Project and the ...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Movie Review: The Beatles: Get Back! (2021). Disney+.

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Another month has slipped by, and here we are – it’s Rock and Roll Friday at The Memory Cache blog again! Today I’d like to begin by posi...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Book Review: The Lincoln Highway (2021). Amor Towles.

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The Lincoln Highway is the third and most recent bestselling historical novel by Amor Towles, who left a twenty-year career as an investmen...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

TV Review: Dark Winds (2022). AMC+.

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I just finished watching the first season of this very good new mystery series, based on the Tony Hillerman series of novels and characters,...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Movie Review: The Janes (2022). HBO Max.

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This inspirational new documentary of events from half a century ago could hardly be more timely or relevant to current events, in the wake ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Book Review: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (2020). Mary Trump, PhD.

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I decided after a year or two of the Trump presidency that I wasn’t going to read most of the tell-all books about Donald Trump, his life, h...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

TV Review: Ridley Road (2021). BBC/PBS Masterpiece.

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Ridley Road is an intriguing short TV mini-series (of four episodes) from the BBC, which we watched on Masterpiece Theater on PBS. It is f...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Book Review: Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife (2017). Leslie Kean.

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It was an odd coincidence to me that Leslie Kean, the New York Times award-winning journalist whose book UFOs I previously reviewed, has a...
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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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